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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

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