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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 reaction to the cold.
(b) The burden of social expectations.
(c) The motion of their bodies.
(d) Their determination.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

4. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?

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

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