1 What is the form of the stanzas? Rhyming quintets Rhyming couplets 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 Sick people living in the basement Dead leaves 3 What is the handyman called to do? Fix the tea kettle Rake the leaves Fix the plumbing Patch up the road 4 What is the speaker doing in the poem? Listening to a phonograph Taking a walk through Beverly Driving through Beverly in their car Looking to buy a home in Beverly 5 The gardens are described as... Sparkling Golden Glowing Silver 6 Which of the following is an example of alliteration? And the living all to be made again in the sweatingest physical manner When they flow sweetly into their houses We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. 7 Which of the following is described as "a neat brilliancy"? The tea The refuse The golden gardens The phonograph 8 Which of the following is an example of personification? We know what they go to. To tea. They will throw some little black dots into some water and add sugar The dry brown coughing beneath their feet The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. 9 What is a phonograph? A type of camera A type of telephone A radio A record player 10 What do the residents of Beverly "go to" when they enter their houses? They go to perform manual labor They go to listen to records They go to bed 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. 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." The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. 12 In what collection did this poem first appear? A Street in Bronzeville In the Mecca Annie Allen The Bean Eaters 13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"? A broken chair A tree with no leaves A phonograph A garden hose 14 What season is it most likely? Spring Fall Winter Summer 15 What kind of animal bleats? Chicken Goat Pig Dog 16 Which of the following is an example of personification? It is just that so often they live till their hair is white. We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today. 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? 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. 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. 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? And think, while a breath of pine blows, Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner. 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? 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." 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. The residents of Beverly are vain. 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 When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff. Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours. They make excellent corpses 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? Hateful Soft Gruff Furious 25 What does the speaker want? For the people in Beverly to all become poor and experience poverty To drink finer teas To have a beautiful garden To have the same resources and securities as the people in Beverly
