The Émigrée Quizzes

The Émigrée Quiz

1 Which of the following is an example of personification?
"The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes" (Line 9)

"My city takes me dancing..." (Line 21)

"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)
2 Which of the following is NOT a motif or symbol used in the poem?
Shadows

A wolf

Paper

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

A paperweight

A piece of paper

A hollow doll
4 "There once was a ____... I left it as a ___."
city / child

city / November

country / hollow doll

country / child
5 Which of the following is NOT a major theme in the poem?
Language

War

Religion

Memory
6 In what year was "The Émigrée" published?
1976

1983

1987

2001
7 Which of the following is an example of caesura?
"There once was a country... I left it as a child" (Line 1)

"They accuse me of being dark in their free city" (Line 23)

"That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll" (Lines 12-13)

"I comb its hair and love its shining eyes" (Line 20)
8 Which color is used to describe the streets of the city?
White

Brown

Grey

Earthy
9 Which of the following is NOT a metaphor in the poem?
"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)

"...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10)
10 The poem contains ____
four stanzas of nine lines each.

Tthree stanzas, with the first two containing eight lines and the final one containing nine lines.

rhree stanzas of eight 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

Sunlight

A doll
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 who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons

A person on the move

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

An expatriate
14 Which of the following is NOT a simile used in the poem?
"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)

"...docile as paper" (Line 19

"...as time rolls its tanks" (Line 10)
15 What is the speaker's childhood vocabulary compared to?
A hollow doll

A grape

Tyranny

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

December

A hollow paperweight

A filled paperweight
17 What word is used at the end of each stanza?
Country

Sunlight

Girl

City
18 Which month is referenced in the poem?
December

November

March

January
19 The opening line alludes to ___.
nothing

World War 2

Europe

fairytales
20 Which of the following best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Free 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 fight with a loved one

Warfare (tanks)

A soothing balm

A waterfall
23 Who or what accuses the speaker?
The dolls

An unspecified "they"

The tyrants

The walls
24 What is the speaker accused of?
Leaving

Supporting the wrong side

Absence and darkness

Tyranny and oppression
25 What does the speaker's shadow symbolize?
The personified city's cowardice

The speaker's love for her children

Even her own darkness is a symbol of her sunlit impression of her country

Evil

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