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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(d) Elaborate shoes with high heels.

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. 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 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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