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? 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 / child city / November city / child country / hollow doll 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? Language War Religion Memory 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 1976 1983 1987 2001 7 Which of the following is an example of caesura? "That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13) "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) 8 Which color is used to describe the streets of the city? Grey Brown White Earthy 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "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) "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) 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 Sunlight A docile figure A doll 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? 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 A person on the move An expatriate 14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem? "...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 "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 December A filled paperweight A hollow paperweight 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? Girl City Country Sunlight 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? November March January December 19 The opening line alludes to ___. Europe nothing World War 2 fairytales 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Iambic pentameter Blank verse Free verse Iambic tetrameter 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Corrupt politicians Malaria War Tyrants 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 walls The tyrants An unspecified "they" 24 What is the speaker accused of? Supporting the wrong side Tyranny and oppression Absence and darkness 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