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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) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) White.

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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