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

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

3. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(b) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(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) Streetlights.
(b) Headlights.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Reflections.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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