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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?

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

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

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

5. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

(see the answer key)

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