The Émigrée Quizzes

The Émigrée Quiz

1 Which of the following is an example of personification?
"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)

"That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar" (Lines 12-13)
2 Which of the following is NOT a motif or symbol used in the poem?
Sunlight

Shadows

Paper

A wolf
3 Which of the following does the speaker not have?
A piece of paper

A paperweight

A passport

A hollow doll
4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___."
country / child

country / hollow doll

city / child

city / November
5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem?
War

Language

Religion

Memory
6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published?
1987

1983

2001

1976
7 Which of the following is an example of caesura?
"That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13)

"I comb its hair and love its shining eyes" (Line 20)

"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

White

Brown

Grey
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 ____
four stanzas of nine lines each.

rhree stanzas of eight lines each.

Tthree stanzas, with the first two containing eight lines and the final one containing nine lines.

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

A docile figure

Sunlight

A doll
12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?"
Docile

Confronting

Threatened

Calm
13 What is the definition of an émigrée?
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

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
14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem?
"and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11)

"...docile as paper" (Line 19

"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?
Tyranny

A grape

A lie

A hollow doll
16 Which of the following is used to describe language?
A hollow paperweight

A filled paperweight

December

Colorful molecules
17 What word is used at the end of each stanza?
Girl

City

Sunlight

Country
18 Which month is referenced in the poem?
December

November

March

January
19 The opening line alludes to ___.
nothing

Europe

World War 2

fairytales
20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Blank verse
21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7?
Corrupt politicians

Tyrants

War

Malaria
22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to?
A soothing balm

Warfare (tanks)

A fight with a loved one

A waterfall
23 Who or what accuses the speaker?
An unspecified "they"

The dolls

The tyrants

The walls
24 What is the speaker accused of?
Tyranny and oppression

Supporting the wrong side

Leaving

Absence and darkness
25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize?
The personified city's cowardice

Evil

Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country

The speaker's love for her children

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