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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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) Paradox.
(d) Simile.

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

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

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

11. 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 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(d) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."

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

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

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

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

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