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) "My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21) "It may by now be a lie, banned by the state" (Line 15) "The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes" (Line 9) 2 Which of the following is NOT a motif or symbol used in the poem? Shadows Sunlight Paper A wolf 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A hollow doll A piece of paper A passport A paperweight 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? War Memory Language 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) "I comb its hair and love its shining eyes" (Line 20) "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? Earthy Brown Grey White 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "...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) "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) 10 The poem contains ____ 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. 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? A doll White Streets A docile figure Sunlight 12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?" Threatened Calm Confronting Docile 13 What is the definition of an émigrée? An expatriate A person on the move A person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country 14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem? "...docile as paper" (Line 19 "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) 15 What is the speaker's childhood vocabulary compared to? A grape Tyranny A lie A hollow doll 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? A filled paperweight Colorful molecules A hollow paperweight December 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? Girl Country City Sunlight 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? November December January March 19 The opening line alludes to ___. fairytales Europe World War 2 nothing 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Blank verse Free verse Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter 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 fight with a loved one A soothing balm A waterfall Warfare (tanks) 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? The walls The dolls The tyrants An unspecified "they" 24 What is the speaker accused of? Absence and darkness Supporting the wrong side Tyranny and oppression Leaving 25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize? Evil 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