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

2. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Alliteration and personification.
(b) Asyndeton and euphony.
(c) Euphony and alliteration.
(d) Personification and asyndeton.

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

4. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) Their reaction to the cold.
(b) Their determination.
(c) The motion of their bodies.
(d) The burden of social expectations.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?

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

5. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

(see the answer key)

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