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

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

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

4. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
(a) Personification.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Simile.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?

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