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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 American people.
(b) The American land.
(c) The wars fought to secure land.
(d) The history of the United States.

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)?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metonymy.

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

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

5. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?
(a) Colonists.
(b) Revolutionaries.
(c) Americans.
(d) Farmers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?

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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