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1 What is the form of the stanzas?

Rhyming quintets

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

Rhyming couplets

Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines
2 What does "the dry brown coughing beneath their feet" refer to?

Sick people living in the basement

Dead leaves

The dry soil at the end of summer

Children too sick to go to school
3 What is the handyman called to do?

Fix the plumbing

Rake the leaves

Patch up the road

Fix the tea kettle
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?

Taking a walk through Beverly

Listening to a phonograph

Driving through Beverly in their car

Looking to buy a home in Beverly
5 The gardens are described as...

Glowing

Golden

Sparkling

Silver
6 Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

And the living all to be made again in the sweatingest physical manner

When they flow sweetly into their houses

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today
7 Which of the following is described as "a neat brilliancy"?

The refuse

The golden gardens

The tea

The phonograph
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?

They will throw some little black dots into some water and add sugar

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

We know what they go to. To tea.

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet
9 What is a phonograph?

A record player

A radio

A type of camera

A type of telephone
10 What do the residents of Beverly "go to" when they enter their houses?

They go to make tea

They go to listen to records

They go to bed

They go to perform manual labor
11 Which of the following is an example of relative suffering?

While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people. / At least, nobody driving by in this car.

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

Not that anybody is saying that these people have no trouble. / Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.
12 In what collection did this poem first appear?

Annie Allen

A Street in Bronzeville

In the Mecca

The Bean Eaters
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?

A garden hose

A phonograph

A tree with no leaves

A broken chair
14 What season is it most likely?

Winter

Summer

Spring

Fall
15 What kind of animal bleats?

Goat

Chicken

Dog

Pig
16 Which of the following is an example of personification?

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.

It is just that so often they live till their hair is white.

While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."
17 Which of the following lines best represents the subject of the poem?

We do not want them to have less. / But it is only natural that we should think we have not enough.

When they flow sweetly into their houses / With softness and slowness touched by that everlasting gold, / We know what they go to. To tea.

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

That we may look at them, in their gardens where / The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

Not raggedly

As everlasting gold
19 Which of the following is an example of personification?

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

We drive on, we drive on.

And think, while a breath of pine blows,

Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.
20 What do the different preparations of tea represent in this poem?

The differences in taste between Beverly residents and the speaker

Cultural differences in the proper way to prepare tea

An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago

The differences in quality of life between Beverly residents and the speaker
21 What is the meaning of the line, "It is just that so often they live till their hair is white."

Affluent white people have an easier time living longer than working-class people of color.

The residents of Beverly are vain.

Rich people refuse to dye their hair.

The residents of Beverly have better access to hospitals because of where their neighborhood is.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff.

And the living all to be made again in the sweatingest physical manner

They make excellent corpses
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?

Pines

Oaks

Palms

Willows
24 How does the speaker describe their voice after they drive through Beverly?

Gruff

Soft

Hateful

Furious
25 What does the speaker want?

For the people in Beverly to all become poor and experience poverty

To have the same resources and securities as the people in Beverly

To have a beautiful garden

To drink finer teas

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