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

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

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

4. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?
(a) Bystanders.
(b) Clients.
(c) Police officers.
(d) Pimps.

5. 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."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?

2. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?

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

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

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

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