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

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

3. 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) Simile.
(d) Personification.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?

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

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

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

5. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?

(see the answer key)

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