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

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

3. 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 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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