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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 line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(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 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."

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

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

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

5. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?
(a) Silver.
(b) White.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

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

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

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