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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) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(b) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.
(c) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(d) Elaborate shoes with high heels.

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

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

4. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) A hidden character flaw.
(b) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(c) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.
(d) Cowardice and fear.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?

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

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

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

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

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