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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 line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(b) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?

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

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