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? A wolf Shadows Paper Sunlight 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A hollow doll A paperweight A passport A piece of paper 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." country / child city / November country / hollow doll city / child 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? Religion War Language Memory 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 2001 1987 1976 1983 7 Which of the following is an example of caesura? "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) "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? Brown Grey White Earthy 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) 10 The poem contains ____ Tthree stanzas, with the first two containing eight lines and the final one containing nine lines. rhree stanzas of eight lines each. 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? White Streets A docile figure A doll Sunlight 12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?" Threatened Docile Calm Confronting 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 An expatriate A person on the move 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 grape A hollow doll 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? Country Sunlight Girl City 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? November December March January 19 The opening line alludes to ___. World War 2 nothing fairytales Europe 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Free verse Blank verse Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Corrupt politicians Malaria War Tyrants 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? The walls The dolls The tyrants An unspecified "they" 24 What is the speaker accused of? Supporting the wrong side Tyranny and oppression Absence and darkness Leaving 25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize? The personified city's cowardice Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country The speaker's love for her children Evil
