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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) Clients.
(b) Bystanders.
(c) Pimps.
(d) Police officers.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?

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

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

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

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

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