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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 are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(b) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(c) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.
(d) Elaborate shoes with high heels.

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

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

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

5. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Personification.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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