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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. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Prideful.
(c) Sacred.
(d) Aching.

2. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?
(a) The second and fourth.
(b) The fifth and sixth.
(c) The first and third.
(d) The first and sixth.

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

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

5. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Sibilance.
(d) Synesthesia.

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

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

4. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?

5. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?

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