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

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

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

4. 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 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(d) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?

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

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

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

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