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

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

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

4. Which lines of each stanza are indented?
(a) The first and third.
(b) The fifth and sixth.
(c) The first and sixth.
(d) The second and fourth.

5. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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