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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 techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Personification and asyndeton.
(b) Asyndeton and euphony.
(c) Alliteration and personification.
(d) Euphony and alliteration.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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