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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 fifth and sixth.
(b) The second and fourth.
(c) The first and sixth.
(d) The first and third.

2. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(b) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(c) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(d) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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