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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 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."

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

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

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

5. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Synesthesia.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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