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1 What is the form of the stanzas?
Rhyming couplets

Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

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

Sick people living in the basement

Dead leaves

The dry soil at the end of summer
3 What is the handyman called to do?
Patch up the road

Fix the plumbing

Rake the leaves

Fix the tea kettle
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?
Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Taking a walk through Beverly

Listening to a phonograph

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

Silver

Glowing

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

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
7 Which of the following is described as "a neat brilliancy"?
The tea

The refuse

The phonograph

The golden gardens
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?
The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

We know what they go to. To tea.

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

They will throw some little black dots into some water and add sugar
9 What is a phonograph?
A record player

A type of camera

A type of telephone

A radio
10 What do the residents of Beverly "go to" when they enter their houses?
They go to bed

They go to listen to records

They go to perform manual labor

They go to make tea
11 Which of the following is an example of relative suffering?
Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people. / At least, nobody driving by in this car.

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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

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?
A Street in Bronzeville

The Bean Eaters

Annie Allen

In the Mecca
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A phonograph

A tree with no leaves

A garden hose

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

Winter

Fall

Summer
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Goat

Pig

Chicken

Dog
16 Which of the following is an example of personification?
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."

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.
17 Which of the following lines best represents the subject of the poem?
When they flow sweetly into their houses / With softness and slowness touched by that everlasting gold, / We know what they go to. To tea.

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.

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

Not raggedly

As everlasting gold

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold
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.

We drive on, we drive on.

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.
20 What do the different preparations of tea represent in this poem?
An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago

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
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.

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.

Rich people refuse to dye their hair.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
They make excellent corpses

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

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

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?
Oaks

Pines

Willows

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

Gruff

Furious

Soft
25 What does the speaker want?
To drink finer teas

To have a beautiful garden

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

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

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