1 Which of the following is an example of personification? "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) "My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21) 2 Which of the following is NOT a motif or symbol used in the poem? A wolf Sunlight Shadows Paper 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A passport A paperweight A hollow doll A piece of paper 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." country / child city / November city / child country / hollow doll 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? War Memory Religion Language 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 1976 2001 1983 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? White Earthy Grey Brown 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) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) 10 The poem contains ____ rhree stanzas, with the first two containing nine lines and the final stanza containing eight lines. rhree stanzas of eight lines each. Tthree stanzas, with the first two containing eight lines and the final one containing nine lines. four stanzas of nine lines each. 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?" Confronting Docile Threatened Calm 13 What is the definition of an émigrée? An expatriate 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 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 grape A lie Tyranny 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? A hollow paperweight Colorful molecules December A filled paperweight 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? Sunlight City Country Girl 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? December November March January 19 The opening line alludes to ___. World War 2 Europe fairytales nothing 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Free verse Blank verse Iambic pentameter Iambic tetrameter 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 fight with a loved one A soothing balm Warfare (tanks) A waterfall 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? The dolls The tyrants The walls An unspecified "they" 24 What is the speaker accused of? Absence and darkness Tyranny and oppression Supporting the wrong side 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