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? Paper A wolf Shadows Sunlight 3 Which of the following does the speaker not have? A passport A hollow doll A piece of paper A paperweight 4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___." country / child country / hollow doll city / child city / November 5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem? Language Religion War Memory 6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published? 1987 1983 1976 2001 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 White Grey Earthy 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) "my original view, the bright, filled paperweight" (Line 6) "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. 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. 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?" Docile Threatened Calm Confronting 13 What is the definition of an émigrée? A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country An expatriate A person on the move 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? "...docile as paper" (Line 19 "...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10) "and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves" (Line 11) "That child's vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13) 15 What is the speaker's childhood vocabulary compared to? Tyranny A grape A hollow doll A lie 16 Which of the following is used to describe language? December Colorful molecules A filled paperweight 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? December November January March 19 The opening line alludes to ___. Europe nothing World War 2 fairytales 20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter? Free verse Iambic pentameter Iambic tetrameter Blank verse 21 What is the city "sick with" according to Line 7? Corrupt politicians Tyrants Malaria War 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? An unspecified "they" The dolls The tyrants 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 speaker's love for her children The personified city's cowardice Evil Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country