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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(c) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(d) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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