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

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

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 third.
(d) The first and sixth.

4. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?
(a) Streetlights.
(b) Reflections.
(c) Headlights.
(d) Dawn.

5. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(b) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(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. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?

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

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

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

5. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?

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