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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 8 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?
(a) Gray.
(b) Silver.
(c) Black.
(d) White.
2. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?
(a) Punishment, corruption, and justice.
(b) Circumstance, poverty, and innocence.
(c) Heaven, purity, and nature.
(d) Prejudice, indifference, and suffering.
3. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) The motion of their bodies.
(b) Their determination.
(c) The burden of social expectations.
(d) Their reaction to the cold.
4. 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.
5. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Asyndeton and euphony.
(b) Euphony and alliteration.
(c) Personification and asyndeton.
(d) Alliteration and personification.
Short Answer Questions
1. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
2. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
3. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
4. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?
5. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is Harlem and why is it significant to the meaning of this poem?
2. How does the second stanza set up a contrast between dark and light?
3. Describe the form of this poem.
4. What does the poem conclude is the cause of the women's choice to pursue sex work?
5. How does the use of the word "prowling" contrast with the poem's previous descriptions of the women?
6. What is the poem's first image, and how does it set a tone for the rest of the poem?
7. How does McKay convey the idea that these women are sex workers?
8. What indications does the speaker give that he feels the sex workers' choices indicate something about all Black people in America?
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