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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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