The Émigrée Quizzes

The Émigrée Quiz

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?
Sunlight

Paper

A wolf

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

A piece of paper

A hollow doll

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

country / hollow doll

city / November

city / child
5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem?
Memory

Language

War

Religion
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)

"There once was a country... I left it as a child" (Line 1)

"That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13)
8 Which color is used to describe the streets of the city?
Earthy

Brown

Grey

White
9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem?
"my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6)

"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)
10 The poem contains ____
rhree stanzas, with the first two containing nine lines and the final stanza containing eight lines.

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

A docile figure

White Streets

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

Threatened

Calm

Docile
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

An expatriate

A person on the move
14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem?
"That child's vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13)

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

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

"...docile as paper" (Line 19
15 What is the speaker's childhood vocabulary compared to?
Tyranny

A hollow doll

A lie

A grape
16 Which of the following is used to describe language?
Colorful molecules

A hollow paperweight

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

March

November

January
19 The opening line alludes to ___.
fairytales

World War 2

Europe

nothing
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

Corrupt politicians

Tyrants

Malaria
22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to?
Warfare (tanks)

A fight with a loved one

A waterfall

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

The tyrants

The dolls

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

Supporting the wrong side

Absence and darkness

Leaving
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

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