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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. 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 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."

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