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

2. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) Cowardice and fear.
(b) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(c) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.
(d) A hidden character flaw.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?

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

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