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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. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Movement.
(b) Footwear.
(c) Sound.
(d) Clothing.

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

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

4. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Bystanders.
(c) Pimps.
(d) Clients.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?

2. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

5. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?

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