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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) Americans themselves.
(b) The land Americans live on.
(c) Surrender and salvation.
(d) Freedom from England.

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

3. The repetition of the word "deed" in line 13 is an example of which technique?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Antanaclasis.
(d) Anadiplosis.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which is the primary definition of "still" being used in the expression "still colonials" in line 5?

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

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

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