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

2. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?
(a) Heaven, purity, and nature.
(b) Prejudice, indifference, and suffering.
(c) Punishment, corruption, and justice.
(d) Circumstance, poverty, and innocence.

3. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Elaborate shoes with high heels.
(b) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(c) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(d) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.

4. 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 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."

5. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?
(a) Pimps.
(b) Clients.
(c) Police officers.
(d) Bystanders.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?

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

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