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

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

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

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

5. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gray.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?

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

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