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1 What is the form of the stanzas?

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

Rhyming couplets

Rhyming quintets

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

Dead leaves

The dry soil at the end of summer

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

Patch up the road

Rake the leaves

Fix the plumbing

Fix the tea kettle
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?

Driving through Beverly in their car

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Taking a walk through Beverly

Listening to a phonograph
5 The gardens are described as...

Silver

Sparkling

Golden

Glowing
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 tea

The phonograph

The refuse

The golden gardens
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

We know what they go to. To tea.

They will throw some little black dots into some water and add sugar
9 What is a phonograph?

A record player

A radio

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 listen to records

They go to bed

They go to perform manual labor

They go to make tea
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.

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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

Annie Allen

A Street in Bronzeville

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

A phonograph

A broken chair

A tree with no leaves

A garden hose
14 What season is it most likely?

Fall

Spring

Summer

Winter
15 What kind of animal bleats?

Dog

Chicken

Goat

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

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

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.

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?

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.

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.

And think, while a breath of pine blows,

We drive on, we drive on.

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

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

An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago
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 are vain.

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.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

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.

They make excellent corpses

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?

Oaks

Willows

Palms

Pines
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

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