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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) Streetlights.
(c) Reflections.
(d) Headlights.

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

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

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 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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