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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Harlem Shadows," Lines 1-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?

2. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?

3. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?

4. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?

5. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?

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