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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) Their reaction to the cold.
(c) The motion of their bodies.
(d) The burden of social expectations.

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

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

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

5. 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 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

(see the answer key)

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