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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) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Alliteration.

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

3. 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."

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

5. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
(a) Sacred.
(b) Aching.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Prideful.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

4. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?

5. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?

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