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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) Clients.
(b) Bystanders.
(c) Police officers.
(d) Pimps.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?

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

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