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

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

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

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

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

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

3. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

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

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

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