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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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) Simile.
(d) Paradox.

14. 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 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."

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

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