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1 What is the form of the stanzas?
Rhyming couplets

Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Rhyming quintets

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

Dead leaves

Sick people living in the basement

The dry soil at the end of summer
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?
Listening to a phonograph

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Taking a walk through 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?
The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today

When they flow sweetly into their houses

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 phonograph

The refuse

The golden gardens

The tea
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?
We know what they go to. To tea.

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

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

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
9 What is a phonograph?
A radio

A type of camera

A record player

A type of telephone
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?
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?
Annie Allen

In the Mecca

A Street in Bronzeville

The Bean Eaters
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A phonograph

A tree with no leaves

A broken chair

A garden hose
14 What season is it most likely?
Winter

Summer

Fall

Spring
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Chicken

Goat

Dog

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

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.
17 Which of the following lines best represents the subject of the poem?
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.

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.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?
As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

As everlasting gold

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

Not raggedly
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,

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

We drive on, we drive on.
20 What do the different preparations of tea represent in this poem?
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

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."
The residents of Beverly are vain.

Affluent white people have an easier time living longer than working-class people of color.

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.

They make excellent corpses

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

And the living all to be made again in the sweatingest physical manner
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?
Palms

Pines

Oaks

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

Gruff

Furious

Hateful
25 What does the speaker want?
To have the same resources and securities as the people in Beverly

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

To drink finer teas

To have a beautiful garden

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