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

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

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

5. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Elaborate shoes with high heels.
(b) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(c) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(d) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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