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

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

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

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

5. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?
(a) Streetlights.
(b) Reflections.
(c) Headlights.
(d) Dawn.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?

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

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