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

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

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

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

5. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.
(b) Elaborate shoes with high heels.
(c) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(d) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

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

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