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1 What is the form of the stanzas?
Rhyming couplets

Rhyming quintets

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?
The dry soil at the end of summer

Dead leaves

Sick people living in the basement

Children too sick to go to school
3 What is the handyman called to do?
Fix the plumbing

Rake the leaves

Fix the tea kettle

Patch up the road
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?
Driving through Beverly in their car

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Listening to a phonograph

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

Glowing

Golden

Silver
6 Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
And the living all to be made again in the sweatingest physical manner

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

When they flow sweetly into their houses

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today
7 Which of the following is described as "a neat brilliancy"?
The golden gardens

The refuse

The phonograph

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

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

We know what they go to. To tea.

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet
9 What is a phonograph?
A type of telephone

A record player

A radio

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?
Annie Allen

In the Mecca

A Street in Bronzeville

The Bean Eaters
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A tree with no leaves

A phonograph

A garden hose

A broken chair
14 What season is it most likely?
Spring

Summer

Winter

Fall
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Pig

Goat

Dog

Chicken
16 Which of the following is an example of personification?
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.

While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."
17 Which of the following lines best represents the subject of the poem?
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.

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.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?
With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

Not raggedly

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

As everlasting gold
19 Which of the following is an example of personification?
Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.

We drive on, we drive on.

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

And think, while a breath of pine blows,
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 have better access to hospitals because of where their neighborhood is.

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

Rich people refuse to dye their hair.

The residents of Beverly are vain.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff.

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
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?
Pines

Oaks

Willows

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

Furious

Hateful

Gruff
25 What does the speaker want?
To have a beautiful garden

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

To drink finer teas

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

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