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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(b) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

9. 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 first and sixth.
(d) The second and fourth.

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

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

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

13. 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) Antithesis.
(d) Personification.

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

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

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