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

2. 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 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?

2. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?

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

4. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

(see the answer key)

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