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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 ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?
(a) Prejudice, indifference, and suffering.
(b) Punishment, corruption, and justice.
(c) Circumstance, poverty, and innocence.
(d) Heaven, purity, and nature.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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