View a FREE sample

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

2. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Sound.
(c) Footwear.
(d) Movement.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

3. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 258 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample