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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 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."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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