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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. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) Their determination.
(b) The motion of their bodies.
(c) The burden of social expectations.
(d) Their reaction to the cold.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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