1 Which of the following is an example of personification? "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) "It may by now be a lie, banned by the state" (Line 15) "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 paperweight A hollow doll A piece of paper A passport 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." city / November city / child country / child country / hollow doll 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? War Memory Language Religion 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 2001 1987 1976 1983 7 Which of the following is an example of caesura? "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) "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? White Grey Brown Earthy 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) 10 The poem contains ____ rhree stanzas, with the first two containing nine lines and the final stanza containing eight lines. four stanzas of nine lines each. Tthree stanzas, with the first two containing eight lines and the final one containing nine lines. rhree stanzas of eight lines each. 11 Which of the following is NOT used to describe the city? White Streets A doll A docile figure Sunlight 12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?" Docile Confronting Calm Threatened 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 An expatriate A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country 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? Tyranny A grape A lie A hollow doll 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? A hollow paperweight December Colorful molecules A filled paperweight 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? City Girl Sunlight Country 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? January November March December 19 The opening line alludes to ___. Europe fairytales nothing World War 2 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Blank verse Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Free verse 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Tyrants Corrupt politicians War Malaria 22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to? A waterfall A soothing balm Warfare (tanks) A fight with a loved one 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? The dolls The tyrants An unspecified "they" The walls 24 What is the speaker accused of? Absence and darkness Leaving Tyranny and oppression Supporting the wrong side 25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize? The personified city's cowardice The speaker's love for her children Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country Evil
