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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(d) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."

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

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

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

14. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.

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

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