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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) Paradox.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metonymy.

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) Personification.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Metonymy.

3. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?
(a) Blank verse.
(b) Ballad meter.
(c) Heroic verse.
(d) Free verse.

4. What is alluded to in the phrase "the land vaguely realizing westward" (line 14)?
(a) The forced resettlement of Native peoples.
(b) The Louisiana Purchase.
(c) The Westward expansion of the United States.
(d) The American Civil War.

5. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Anaphora.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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)?

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