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1 What is the form of the stanzas?

Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Rhyming quintets

Rhyming couplets

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third 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?

Rake the leaves

Fix the plumbing

Fix the tea kettle

Patch up the road
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Listening to a phonograph

Taking a walk through Beverly

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

Glowing

Silver

Golden

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

When they flow sweetly into their houses

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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 refuse

The phonograph

The golden gardens

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

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

We know what they go to. To tea.

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
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 perform manual labor

They go to bed

They go to listen to records

They go to make tea
11 Which of the following is an example of relative suffering?

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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.

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

Fall

Summer

Winter
15 What kind of animal bleats?

Goat

Pig

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?

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

When they flow sweetly into their houses / With softness and slowness touched by that everlasting gold, / We know what they go to. To tea.

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.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

As everlasting gold

Not raggedly
19 Which of the following is an example of personification?

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.

And think, while a breath of pine blows,

We drive on, we drive on.
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."

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?

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

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

They make excellent corpses

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

Gruff

Furious

Hateful

Soft
25 What does the speaker want?

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

To have a beautiful garden

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

To drink finer teas

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