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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?

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

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

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

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