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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?

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

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

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

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