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

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

3. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Sound.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Footwear.
(d) Movement.

4. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
(a) Simile.
(b) Personification.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Antithesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?

3. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?

4. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?

5. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?

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