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1 What is the form of the stanzas?
Rhyming quintets

Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

Rhyming couplets
2 What does "the dry brown coughing beneath their feet" refer to?
Sick people living in the basement

The dry soil at the end of summer

Children too sick to go to school

Dead leaves
3 What is the handyman called to do?
Fix the plumbing

Patch up the road

Fix the tea kettle

Rake the leaves
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...
Glowing

Silver

Golden

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

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

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

We know what they go to. To tea.
9 What is a phonograph?
A type of camera

A radio

A record player

A type of telephone
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?
While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."

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.
12 In what collection did this poem first appear?
In the Mecca

The Bean Eaters

A Street in Bronzeville

Annie Allen
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A broken chair

A garden hose

A phonograph

A tree with no leaves
14 What season is it most likely?
Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Dog

Goat

Chicken

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

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.

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.

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?
Not raggedly

As everlasting gold

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner
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 quality of life between Beverly residents and the speaker

The differences in taste between Beverly residents and the speaker

An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago

Cultural differences in the proper way to prepare tea
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?
They make excellent corpses

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.
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?
Willows

Palms

Oaks

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

Furious

Hateful

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

To have a beautiful garden

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

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

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