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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?
Children too sick to go to school

Sick people living in the basement

The dry soil at the end of summer

Dead leaves
3 What is the handyman called to do?
Fix the tea kettle

Patch up the road

Fix the plumbing

Rake the leaves
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?
Listening to a phonograph

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Driving through Beverly in their car

Taking a walk through Beverly
5 The gardens are described as...
Golden

Glowing

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 golden gardens

The refuse

The tea

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

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

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

We know what they go to. To tea.
9 What is a phonograph?
A type of telephone

A type of camera

A radio

A record player
10 What do the residents of Beverly "go to" when they enter their houses?
They go to make tea

They go to perform manual labor

They go to bed

They go to listen to records
11 Which of the following is an example of relative suffering?
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.

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

In the Mecca

Annie Allen

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

A garden hose

A broken chair

A phonograph
14 What season is it most likely?
Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Pig

Dog

Goat

Chicken
16 Which of the following is an example of personification?
While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."

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.
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.

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

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

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 the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

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

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.
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."
The residents of Beverly have better access to hospitals because of where their neighborhood is.

Rich people refuse to dye their hair.

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

The residents of Beverly are vain.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

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.
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?
Soft

Gruff

Hateful

Furious
25 What does the speaker want?
To have the same resources and securities as the people in Beverly

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

To have a beautiful garden

To drink finer teas

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