View a FREE sample

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

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

3. 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 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

5. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Reflections.
(c) Headlights.
(d) Streetlights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

5. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 267 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample