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

2. 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 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

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

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 ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?

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

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

5. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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