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Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?
(a) Streetlights.
(b) Reflections.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Headlights.

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

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

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

11. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Personification and asyndeton.
(b) Alliteration and personification.
(c) Euphony and alliteration.
(d) Asyndeton and euphony.

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

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

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

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

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