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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 does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) A hidden character flaw.
(b) Cowardice and fear.
(c) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(d) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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