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

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

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

4. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Personification and asyndeton.
(b) Euphony and alliteration.
(c) Asyndeton and euphony.
(d) Alliteration and personification.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

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

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