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

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

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

5. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Sound.
(b) Footwear.
(c) Movement.
(d) Clothing.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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