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) "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) 2 Which of the following is NOT a motif or symbol used in the poem? Paper A wolf Sunlight Shadows 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A piece of paper A paperweight A passport A hollow doll 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." city / November city / child country / hollow doll country / child 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? Memory Religion Language War 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 2001 1976 1983 1987 7 Which of the following is an example of caesura? "They accuse me of being dark in their free city" (Line 23) "There once was a country... I left it as a child" (Line 1) "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) 8 Which color is used to describe the streets of the city? White Grey Brown Earthy 9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem? "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) "but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" (Line 2) 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? A doll A docile figure Sunlight White Streets 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? An expatriate A person on the move 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 14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem? "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "...docile as paper" (Line 19 "...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 filled paperweight December Colorful molecules A hollow paperweight 17 What word is used at the end of each stanza? Sunlight City Girl Country 18 Which month is referenced in the poem? March December January November 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 Free verse Blank verse Iambic tetrameter 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Tyrants Malaria War Corrupt politicians 22 What is the passage of time metaphorically compared to? A waterfall A fight with a loved one Warfare (tanks) A soothing balm 23 Who or what accuses the speaker? An unspecified "they" The dolls The tyrants The walls 24 What is the speaker accused of? Absence and darkness Leaving 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 personified city's cowardice The speaker's love for her children