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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 are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.
(b) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(c) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(d) Elaborate shoes with high heels.

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

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

4. Which lines of each stanza are indented?
(a) The first and third.
(b) The fifth and sixth.
(c) The second and fourth.
(d) The first and sixth.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?

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

(see the answer key)

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