1 Which of the following is an example of personification? "My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21) "The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes" (Line 9) "That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar" (Lines 12-13) "It may by now be a lie, banned by the state" (Line 15) 2 Which of the following is NOT a motif or symbol used in the poem? Shadows Sunlight A wolf Paper 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A piece of paper A hollow doll A passport A paperweight 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." country / child city / November city / child country / hollow doll 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? Religion Memory Language War 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 1987 1976 2001 1983 7 Which of the following is an example of caesura? "They accuse me of being dark in their free city" (Line 23) "That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13) "There once was a country... I left it as a child" (Line 1) "I comb its hair and love its shining eyes" (Line 20) 8 Which color is used to describe the streets of the city? White Earthy Brown Grey 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) 10 The poem contains ____ rhree stanzas, with the first two containing nine lines and the final stanza containing eight lines. rhree stanzas of eight lines each. Tthree stanzas, with the first two containing eight lines and the final one containing nine lines. four stanzas of nine lines each. 11 Which of the following is NOT used to describe the city? Sunlight A doll A docile figure White Streets 12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?" Confronting Docile Threatened Calm 13 What is the definition of an émigrée? A person on the move A person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country An expatriate 14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem? "...docile as paper" (Line 19 "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) "That child's vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13) 15 What is the speaker's childhood vocabulary compared to? Tyranny A grape A lie A hollow doll 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? Colorful molecules A hollow paperweight A filled paperweight December 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? City Sunlight Girl Country 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? December November January March 19 The opening line alludes to ___. Europe nothing World War 2 fairytales 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Blank verse Iambic tetrameter Free verse Iambic pentameter 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Tyrants War Corrupt politicians Malaria 22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to? A waterfall A fight with a loved one A soothing balm Warfare (tanks) 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? The tyrants An unspecified "they" The walls The dolls 24 What is the speaker accused of? Absence and darkness Supporting the wrong side Tyranny and oppression Leaving 25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize? Evil Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country The personified city's cowardice The speaker's love for her children