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) "It may by now be a lie, banned by the state" (Line 15) "The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes" (Line 9) "My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21) 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 paperweight A passport A piece of paper A hollow doll 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? War Language Memory Religion 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 1976 1987 1983 2001 7 Which of the following is an example of caesura? "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) "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) 8 Which color is used to describe the streets of the city? Earthy Grey Brown White 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) "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) 10 The poem contains ____ 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. rhree stanzas of eight lines each. 11 Which of the following is NOT used to describe the city? White Streets Sunlight A doll A docile figure 12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?" Docile Threatened Calm Confronting 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) "...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) 15 What is the speaker's childhood vocabulary compared to? A grape Tyranny A hollow doll A lie 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? A filled paperweight December A hollow paperweight Colorful molecules 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? City Sunlight Country Girl 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? March January November 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 Free verse Iambic tetrameter Blank verse 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Tyrants Malaria War Corrupt politicians 22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to? Warfare (tanks) A soothing balm A fight with a loved one A waterfall 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? An unspecified "they" The walls The tyrants The dolls 24 What is the speaker accused of? Supporting the wrong side Absence and darkness Tyranny and oppression Leaving 25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize? The personified city's cowardice Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country Evil The speaker's love for her children