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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?

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

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

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

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