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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Gift Outright," Lines 1-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Allegory.

2. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Free verse.
(b) Heroic verse.
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Ballad meter.

3. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?
(a) Synecdoche and asyndeton.
(b) Apostrophe and antithesis.
(c) Antithesis and synecdoche.
(d) Asyndeton and apostrophe.

4. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Americans.
(d) Colonists.

5. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?

2. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?

3. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?

4. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?

5. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

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