1 What is the form of the stanzas? Rhyming couplets Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines Rhyming quintets Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines 2 What does "the dry brown coughing beneath their feet" refer to? The dry soil at the end of summer Sick people living in the basement Children too sick to go to school Dead leaves 3 What is the handyman called to do? Fix the plumbing Fix the tea kettle Patch up the road Rake the leaves 4 What is the speaker doing in the poem? Looking to buy a home in Beverly Taking a walk through Beverly Driving through Beverly in their car Listening to a phonograph 5 The gardens are described as... Silver Sparkling Glowing Golden 6 Which of the following is an example of alliteration? The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. When they flow sweetly into their houses We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today 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 refuse The tea 8 Which of the following is an example of personification? The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. 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. 9 What is a phonograph? A radio A record player A type of telephone 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 listen to records They go to bed 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." Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people. / At least, nobody driving by in this car. The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. 12 In what collection did this poem first appear? In the Mecca The Bean Eaters A Street in Bronzeville 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? Fall Spring Winter Summer 15 What kind of animal bleats? Pig Goat Chicken Dog 16 Which of the following is an example of personification? 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. 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? 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? As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold With a gold-flecked beautiful banner Not raggedly As everlasting gold 19 Which of the following is an example of personification? Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner. Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people. We drive on, we drive on. And think, while a breath of pine blows, 20 What do the different preparations of tea represent in this poem? The differences in quality of life between Beverly residents and the speaker An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago 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." Rich people refuse to dye their hair. 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. 22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole? Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours. When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff. 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 Willows Palms Oaks 24 How does the speaker describe their voice after they drive through Beverly? Furious Hateful Soft Gruff 25 What does the speaker want? To have a beautiful garden To drink finer teas For the people in Beverly to all become poor and experience poverty To have the same resources and securities as the people in Beverly