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

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

3. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?
(a) The fifth and sixth.
(b) The first and sixth.
(c) The first and third.
(d) The second and fourth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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