The Émigrée Quizzes

The Émigrée Quiz

1 Which of the following is an example of personification?
"My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21)

"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)
2 Which of the following is NOT a motif or symbol used in the poem?
A wolf

Paper

Shadows

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

A hollow doll

A passport

A paperweight
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?
Religion

Language

Memory

War
6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published?
2001

1987

1983

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?
Earthy

White

Brown

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)

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

"my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6)
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?
A docile figure

White Streets

Sunlight

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

Calm

Docile

Threatened
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)

"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?
A filled paperweight

A hollow paperweight

Colorful molecules

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

City

Girl

Country
18 Which month is referenced in the poem?
March

November

January

December
19 The opening line alludes to ___.
nothing

fairytales

World War 2

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

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

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 soothing balm

Warfare (tanks)

A waterfall

A fight with a loved one
23 Who or what accuses the speaker?
The tyrants

An unspecified "they"

The dolls

The walls
24 What is the speaker accused of?
Absence and darkness

Supporting the wrong side

Tyranny and oppression

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

The speaker's love for her children

Evil

The personified city's cowardice

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