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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 two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?
(a) The fifth and sixth.
(b) The first and third.
(c) The first and sixth.
(d) The second and fourth.

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

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

4. 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 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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