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

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

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

4. 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) Antithesis and oxymoron.
(b) Chiasmus and antithesis.
(c) Oxymoron and epistrophe.
(d) Epistrophe and chiasmus.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?

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

4. What technique is used in line 10, "We were withholding from our land of living"?

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

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