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

2. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?
(a) Continuing to be.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Unmoving.
(d) Nevertheless.

3. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Personification.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Alliteration.

4. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
(a) The Westward expansion of the United States.
(b) The American Civil War.
(c) The Louisiana Purchase.
(d) The forced resettlement of Native peoples.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?

2. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?

3. What technique is used in the phrase "unstoried, artless, unenhanced" (line 15)?

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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