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

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

3. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?
(a) Prejudice, indifference, and suffering.
(b) Heaven, purity, and nature.
(c) Circumstance, poverty, and innocence.
(d) Punishment, corruption, and justice.

4. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
(a) Simile.
(b) Personification.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Paradox.

5. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Elaborate shoes with high heels.
(b) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(c) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(d) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

2. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?

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

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

5. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?

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