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

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

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

4. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) Their reaction to the cold.
(b) Their determination.
(c) The burden of social expectations.
(d) The motion of their bodies.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?

3. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?

4. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?

5. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?

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