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

2. In line 15, what is the speaker calling "unstoried, artless, unenhanced"?
(a) The wars fought to secure land.
(b) The American land.
(c) The American people.
(d) The history of the United States.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?

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

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

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

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

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