The Émigrée Quizzes

The Émigrée Quiz

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

"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?
A wolf

Sunlight

Paper

Shadows
3 Which of the following does the speaker not have?
A hollow doll

A passport

A paperweight

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

city / child

city / November

country / child
5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem?
Language

Memory

War

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

1976

1983

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)

"They accuse me of being dark in their free city" (Line 23)

"I comb its hair and love its shining eyes" (Line 20)
8 Which color is used to describe the streets of the city?
White

Brown

Earthy

Grey
9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem?
"but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2)

"...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10)

"my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6)

"and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11)
10 The poem contains ____
four stanzas of nine lines each.

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.
11 Which of the following is NOT used to describe the city?
Sunlight

White Streets

A doll

A docile figure
12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?"
Threatened

Calm

Docile

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?
"...docile as paper" (Line 19

"and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11)

"...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10)

"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 hollow doll

Tyranny

A grape

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

Colorful molecules

A filled paperweight

December
17 What word is used at the end of each stanza?
Sunlight

Country

Girl

City
18 Which month is referenced in the poem?
December

November

January

March
19 The opening line alludes to ___.
fairytales

nothing

World War 2

Europe
20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Iambic tetrameter

Free verse
21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7?
War

Tyrants

Corrupt politicians

Malaria
22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to?
A fight with a loved one

Warfare (tanks)

A waterfall

A soothing balm
23 Who or what accuses the speaker?
The tyrants

An unspecified "they"

The walls

The dolls
24 What is the speaker accused of?
Leaving

Absence and darkness

Tyranny and oppression

Supporting the wrong side
25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize?
Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country

Evil

The speaker's love for her children

The personified city's cowardice

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