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

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

3. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
(a) Prideful.
(b) Aching.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Sacred.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?

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

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