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? Shadows Sunlight A wolf Paper 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A passport A paperweight A piece of paper A hollow doll 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." city / November country / hollow doll city / child country / child 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? Language Memory War Religion 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 2001 1976 1983 1987 7 Which of the following is an example of caesura? "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) "That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13) 8 Which color is used to describe the streets of the city? Grey Brown White Earthy 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) 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? 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?" Docile Calm Threatened Confronting 13 What is the definition of an émigrée? A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country A person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons A person on the move 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) "That child's vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13) "...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 A lie Tyranny A grape 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? A hollow paperweight A filled paperweight December Colorful molecules 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? Country Girl Sunlight City 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? December January November March 19 The opening line alludes to ___. World War 2 fairytales Europe nothing 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Free verse Blank verse 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Tyrants War Corrupt politicians Malaria 22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to? A fight with a loved one A soothing balm Warfare (tanks) A waterfall 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? An unspecified "they" The tyrants The walls The dolls 24 What is the speaker accused of? Tyranny and oppression Leaving Absence and darkness Supporting the wrong side 25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize? 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 Evil