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1 What is the form of the stanzas?

Rhyming couplets

Rhyming quintets

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

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

The dry soil at the end of summer

Dead leaves

Sick people living in the basement
3 What is the handyman called to do?

Patch up the road

Rake the leaves

Fix the tea kettle

Fix the plumbing
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?

Driving through Beverly in their car

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Listening to a phonograph

Taking a walk through Beverly
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

When they flow sweetly into their houses

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

And the living all to be made again in the sweatingest physical manner
7 Which of the following is described as "a neat brilliancy"?

The golden gardens

The phonograph

The tea

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

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

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

We know what they go to. To tea.

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
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 bed

They go to make tea

They go to perform manual labor

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?

A Street in Bronzeville

The Bean Eaters

Annie Allen

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

A tree with no leaves

A phonograph

A broken chair

A garden hose
14 What season is it most likely?

Summer

Fall

Winter

Spring
15 What kind of animal bleats?

Pig

Goat

Chicken

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

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

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.

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

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.
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?

As everlasting gold

Not raggedly

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold
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?

An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago

The differences in taste between Beverly residents and the speaker

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

Cultural differences in the proper way to prepare tea
21 What is the meaning of the line, "It is just that so often they live till their hair is white."

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.

The residents of Beverly are vain.
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

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff.
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?

Willows

Pines

Palms

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

Soft

Hateful

Furious

Gruff
25 What does the speaker want?

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

To have a beautiful garden

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

To drink finer teas

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