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1 What is the form of the stanzas?
Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Rhyming couplets

Rhyming quintets

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines
2 What does "the dry brown coughing beneath their feet" refer to?
Dead leaves

Sick people living in the basement

The dry soil at the end of summer

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

Patch up the road

Fix the tea kettle

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

Taking a walk through Beverly

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

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

Golden

Glowing

Sparkling
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 refuse

The golden gardens

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 radio

A record player

A type of camera
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?
Not that anybody is saying that these people have no trouble. / Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.

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

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people. / At least, nobody driving by in this car.
12 In what collection did this poem first appear?
In the Mecca

A Street in Bronzeville

The Bean Eaters

Annie Allen
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A broken chair

A garden hose

A tree with no leaves

A phonograph
14 What season is it most likely?
Summer

Fall

Winter

Spring
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Dog

Pig

Chicken

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

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

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

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.
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.

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.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?
As everlasting gold

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

Not raggedly
19 Which of the following is an example of personification?
We drive on, we drive on.

And think, while a breath of pine blows,

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

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

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

Cultural differences in the proper way to prepare tea

The differences in taste 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.

The residents of Beverly have better access to hospitals because of where their neighborhood is.

Rich people refuse to dye their hair.
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?
Willows

Oaks

Palms

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

Gruff

Hateful

Soft
25 What does the speaker want?
To have a beautiful garden

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

To drink finer teas

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

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