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

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

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

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

5. 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 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

3. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?

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

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

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