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

2. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
(a) Prideful.
(b) Aching.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Sacred.

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?
(a) The fifth and sixth.
(b) The first and sixth.
(c) The first and third.
(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) Pimps.
(c) Bystanders.
(d) Clients.

5. 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 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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