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

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

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

4. 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 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?

5. Which lines of each stanza are indented?

(see the answer key)

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