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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. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
(a) Aching.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Prideful.
(d) Sacred.

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

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

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

5. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) Their determination.
(b) Their reaction to the cold.
(c) The burden of social expectations.
(d) The motion of their bodies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?

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

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

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

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