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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(d) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

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