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