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

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

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

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

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

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

4. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?

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

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