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

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

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

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

5. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(b) A hidden character flaw.
(c) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.
(d) Cowardice and fear.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

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