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