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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Harlem Shadows," Lines 1-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Sibilance.
(d) Alliteration.

2. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Alliteration and personification.
(b) Personification and asyndeton.
(c) Euphony and alliteration.
(d) Asyndeton and euphony.

3. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?
(a) The fifth and sixth.
(b) The first and third.
(c) The first and sixth.
(d) The second and fourth.

4. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) Their reaction to the cold.
(b) Their determination.
(c) The motion of their bodies.
(d) The burden of social expectations.

5. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(b) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?

2. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?

3. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?

4. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?

5. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?

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