1 Which of the following is an example of personification? "The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes" (Line 9) "My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21) "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? Shadows Paper Sunlight A wolf 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A piece of paper A paperweight A hollow doll A passport 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." country / hollow doll city / child country / child city / November 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? War Language Religion Memory 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 1976 2001 1987 1983 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 Earthy Grey 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 ____ 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. rhree stanzas, with the first two containing nine lines and the final stanza containing eight lines. 11 Which of the following is NOT used to describe the city? White Streets A docile figure 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? An expatriate 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 14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem? "...docile as paper" (Line 19 "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) "That child's vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13) "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) 15 What is the speaker's childhood vocabulary compared to? A lie A hollow doll A grape Tyranny 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? Colorful molecules A hollow paperweight A filled paperweight December 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? City Country Girl Sunlight 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? March December November January 19 The opening line alludes to ___. fairytales Europe nothing World War 2 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? Malaria Corrupt politicians Tyrants War 22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to? A waterfall Warfare (tanks) A soothing balm A fight with a loved one 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? The walls The tyrants The dolls An unspecified "they" 24 What is the speaker accused of? Absence and darkness Supporting the wrong side Leaving Tyranny and oppression 25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize? The speaker's love for her children Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country Evil The personified city's cowardice
