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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. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(b) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

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

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

5. 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) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(d) Elaborate shoes with high heels.

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. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?

4. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?

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

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