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

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

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

4. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Sibilance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?

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

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

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