Harlem Shadows Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Harlem Shadows Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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

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

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

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

5. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?
(a) Pimps.
(b) Clients.
(c) Police officers.
(d) Bystanders.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?

(see the answer key)

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