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

3. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Elaborate shoes with high heels.
(b) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(c) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.
(d) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?

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

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

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