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