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