1 Which of the following is an example of personification? "My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21) "It may by now be a lie, banned by the state" (Line 15) "The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes" (Line 9) "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? Paper A wolf Shadows 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 / hollow doll country / child city / child city / November 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? Religion Language War Memory 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 1987 1976 2001 1983 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? Brown Earthy White Grey 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "...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) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) 10 The poem contains ____ 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. four stanzas of nine lines each. 11 Which of the following is NOT used to describe the city? A docile figure Sunlight A doll White Streets 12 Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone when discussing the "city of walls?" Calm Threatened Confronting Docile 13 What is the definition of an émigrée? A person on the move An expatriate 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 14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem? "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) "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) 15 What is the speaker's childhood vocabulary compared to? A grape A lie Tyranny A hollow doll 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? A filled paperweight December Colorful molecules A hollow paperweight 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? Country City Girl Sunlight 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? December January November March 19 The opening line alludes to ___. nothing World War 2 Europe fairytales 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Iambic pentameter Free verse Iambic tetrameter Blank verse 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Tyrants War Corrupt politicians Malaria 22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to? A soothing balm A fight with a loved one A waterfall Warfare (tanks) 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? The walls The tyrants The dolls An unspecified "they" 24 What is the speaker accused of? Tyranny and oppression Absence and darkness Supporting the wrong side Leaving 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