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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 Pilgrims' first landing.
(b) Columbus's voyage.
(c) The American Civil War.
(d) The American Revolution.

2. What does line 12 make clear is the "Gift" in the title "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Americans themselves.
(b) Freedom from England.
(c) Surrender and salvation.
(d) The land Americans live on.

3. What technique is used in the line "Such as she was, such as she would become" (line 16)?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anaphora.

4. 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) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Symbolism.

5. What is the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "it was ourselves" (line 9)?
(a) "What we now no more possessed" (line 7).
(b) "Something we were withholding" (line 8).
(c) "What we still were unpossessed by" (line 6).
(d) "Still colonials" (line 5).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?

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

4. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?

5. Who is the author of "The Gift Outright"?

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