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

2. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?
(a) The first and third.
(b) The second and fourth.
(c) The fifth and sixth.
(d) The first and sixth.

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?
(a) The fifth and sixth.
(b) The first and sixth.
(c) The second and fourth.
(d) The first and third.

4. 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) Antithesis.
(d) Simile.

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

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

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

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

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