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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 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(b) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

(see the answer key)

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