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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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 fifth and sixth.
(d) The second and fourth.

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

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

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

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

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