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) "That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar" (Lines 12-13) "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 piece of paper A passport A paperweight A hollow doll 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." city / child country / child city / November country / hollow doll 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 1983 1987 1976 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 Brown Grey Earthy 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) "...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. Tthree stanzas, with the first two containing eight lines and the final one containing nine lines. rhree stanzas of eight lines each. four stanzas of nine lines each. 11 Which of the following is NOT used to describe the city? A doll A docile figure White Streets Sunlight 12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?" Docile Calm Confronting Threatened 13 What is the definition of an émigrée? A person on the move 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 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 grape A lie Tyranny A hollow doll 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? Colorful molecules December A hollow paperweight A filled paperweight 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? City Girl Country Sunlight 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? January March December November 19 The opening line alludes to ___. World War 2 fairytales nothing Europe 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Iambic tetrameter Blank verse Iambic pentameter Free verse 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? War Corrupt politicians Tyrants Malaria 22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to? A waterfall A fight with a loved one A soothing balm Warfare (tanks) 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? An unspecified "they" The walls The dolls The tyrants 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 personified city's cowardice Evil Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country The speaker's love for her children