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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. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(b) Cowardice and fear.
(c) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.
(d) A hidden character flaw.

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

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 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."

4. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Sound.
(c) Footwear.
(d) Movement.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

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