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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. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) Their determination.
(b) The motion of their bodies.
(c) Their reaction to the cold.
(d) The burden of social expectations.

2. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Euphony and alliteration.
(b) Alliteration and personification.
(c) Asyndeton and euphony.
(d) Personification and asyndeton.

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

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

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

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

3. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?

4. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?

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

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