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

2. 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 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

5. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Pimps.
(c) Bystanders.
(d) Clients.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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