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) "My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21) "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 A wolf Paper 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A paperweight A piece of paper A hollow doll A passport 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." country / hollow doll country / child city / child city / November 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? Language Memory Religion War 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 1983 2001 1987 1976 7 Which of the following is an example of caesura? "They accuse me of being dark in their free city" (Line 23) "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) "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? Brown White Earthy Grey 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) "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) 10 The poem contains ____ rhree stanzas of eight lines each. rhree stanzas, with the first two containing nine lines and the final stanza containing eight lines. Tthree stanzas, with the first two containing eight lines and the final one containing nine lines. four stanzas of nine lines each. 11 Which of the following is NOT used to describe the city? Sunlight A docile figure A doll White Streets 12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?" Threatened Docile Confronting Calm 13 What is the definition of an émigrée? 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 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) "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) "...docile as paper" (Line 19 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? A filled paperweight December A hollow paperweight Colorful molecules 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? Sunlight Girl City Country 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? December March January November 19 The opening line alludes to ___. Europe nothing fairytales World War 2 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? Tyrants War Corrupt politicians Malaria 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? An unspecified "they" The dolls The tyrants The walls 24 What is the speaker accused of? Supporting the wrong side Absence and darkness Leaving Tyranny and oppression 25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize? The personified city's cowardice The speaker's love for her children Evil Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country