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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?

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

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

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