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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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