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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 does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Footwear.
(c) Sound.
(d) Movement.
2. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(b) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
3. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Asyndeton and euphony.
(b) Personification and asyndeton.
(c) Euphony and alliteration.
(d) Alliteration and personification.
4. 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 second and fourth.
(d) The first and third.
5. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
2. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
3. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
4. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?
5. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does McKay convey the idea that these women are sex workers?
2. What indications does the speaker give that he feels the sex workers' choices indicate something about all Black people in America?
3. How does the second stanza set up a contrast between dark and light?
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. Describe the form of this poem.
7. Where is Harlem and why is it significant to the meaning of this poem?
8. What is the poem's first image, and how does it set a tone for the rest of the poem?
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