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

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

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

4. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Antithesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

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