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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. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) Columbus's voyage.
(d) The Pilgrims' first landing.

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

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

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

5. What techniques are used in the lines "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,/ Possessed by what we now no more possessed" (lines 6-7)?
(a) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(b) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(c) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(d) Epistrophe and chiasmus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?

3. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?

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

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

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