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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 first and third.
(b) The first and sixth.
(c) The second and fourth.
(d) The fifth and sixth.

2. 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 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?

(see the answer key)

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