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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) A hidden character flaw.
(b) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(c) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.
(d) Cowardice and fear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Sibilance.

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

11. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Prideful.
(c) Sacred.
(d) Aching.

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

13. 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.

14. 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."

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

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