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

2. According to the poem's second sentence, how did "we" find "salvation"?
(a) By realizing our own weakness.
(b) By dedicating ourselves to the Christian God.
(c) By finding the courage to fight England.
(d) By fully surrendering ourselves to the land.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

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

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