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

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

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

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

5. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Footwear.
(b) Sound.
(c) Movement.
(d) Clothing.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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