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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?

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

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

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

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

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