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