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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which lines of each stanza are indented?
(a) The first and sixth.
(b) The first and third.
(c) The fifth 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. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Footwear.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Movement.
(d) Sound.

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

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

6. 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) Their determination.
(d) The motion of their bodies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."

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

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

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