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1 What is the form of the stanzas?
Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

Rhyming quintets

Rhyming couplets
2 What does "the dry brown coughing beneath their feet" refer to?
Dead leaves

Children too sick to go to school

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

Fix the plumbing

Fix the tea kettle

Rake the leaves
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?
Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Driving through Beverly in their car

Listening to a phonograph

Taking a walk through Beverly
5 The gardens are described as...
Glowing

Sparkling

Silver

Golden
6 Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today

When they flow sweetly into their houses

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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 tea

The refuse

The golden gardens
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?
The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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
9 What is a phonograph?
A type of telephone

A type of camera

A record player

A radio
10 What do the residents of Beverly "go to" when they enter their houses?
They go to bed

They go to perform manual labor

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?
The Bean Eaters

In the Mecca

A Street in Bronzeville

Annie Allen
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?
Fall

Winter

Summer

Spring
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Goat

Pig

Chicken

Dog
16 Which of the following is an example of personification?
While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."

It is just that so often they live till their hair is white.

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.

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.

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.

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

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

Not raggedly

As everlasting gold
19 Which of the following is an example of personification?
Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

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.
20 What do the different preparations of tea represent in this poem?
An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago

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

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."
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.

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

They make excellent corpses

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff.
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?
Oaks

Palms

Pines

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

Soft

Gruff

Hateful
25 What does the speaker want?
To drink finer teas

To have a beautiful garden

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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