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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 does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(b) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.
(c) Cowardice and fear.
(d) A hidden character flaw.

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

3. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(b) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?

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

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

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

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

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