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

2. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(b) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

(see the answer key)

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