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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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