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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 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(b) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

5. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?

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