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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?

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

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

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

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