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1 What is the form of the stanzas?
Rhyming quintets

Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

Rhyming couplets
2 What does "the dry brown coughing beneath their feet" refer to?
Children too sick to go to school

Dead leaves

Sick people living in the basement

The dry soil at the end of summer
3 What is the handyman called to do?
Rake the leaves

Fix the plumbing

Patch up the road

Fix the tea kettle
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?
Listening to a phonograph

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Taking a walk through Beverly

Driving through Beverly in their car
5 The gardens are described as...
Glowing

Golden

Silver

Sparkling
6 Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today

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

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

When they flow sweetly into their houses
7 Which of the following is described as "a neat brilliancy"?
The phonograph

The golden gardens

The refuse

The tea
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?
The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

We know what they go to. To tea.

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

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
9 What is a phonograph?
A record player

A type of camera

A radio

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

They go to bed

They go to make tea

They go to perform manual labor
11 Which of the following is an example of relative suffering?
Not that anybody is saying that these people have no trouble. / Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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

While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."
12 In what collection did this poem first appear?
The Bean Eaters

Annie Allen

In the Mecca

A Street in Bronzeville
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A tree with no leaves

A garden hose

A phonograph

A broken chair
14 What season is it most likely?
Winter

Spring

Fall

Summer
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Goat

Pig

Dog

Chicken
16 Which of the following is an example of personification?
We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.

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?
That we may look at them, in their gardens where / The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

When they flow sweetly into their houses / With softness and slowness touched by that everlasting gold, / We know what they go to. To tea.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?
As everlasting gold

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

Not raggedly

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner
19 Which of the following is an example of personification?
And think, while a breath of pine blows,

Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

We drive on, we drive on.
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

The differences in quality of life between Beverly residents and the speaker

An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago
21 What is the meaning of the line, "It is just that so often they live till their hair is white."
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.

Affluent white people have an easier time living longer than working-class people of color.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff.

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

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

Willows

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

Furious

Hateful

Soft
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 drink finer teas

To have a beautiful garden

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