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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. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) The burden of social expectations.
(b) Their reaction to the cold.
(c) Their determination.
(d) The motion of their bodies.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?

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

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

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