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

2. 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 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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