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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?

Dead leaves

Children too sick to go to school

Sick people living in the basement

The dry soil at the end of summer
3 What is the handyman called to do?

Fix the plumbing

Fix the tea kettle

Rake the leaves

Patch up the road
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?

Driving through Beverly in their car

Taking a walk through Beverly

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Listening to a phonograph
5 The gardens are described as...

Sparkling

Silver

Glowing

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 golden gardens

The refuse

The phonograph

The tea
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

We know what they go to. To tea.

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

They will throw some little black dots into some water and add sugar
9 What is a phonograph?

A type of telephone

A radio

A type of camera

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 make tea

They go to listen to records

They go to bed
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?

The Bean Eaters

A Street in Bronzeville

Annie Allen

In the Mecca
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?

A garden hose

A tree with no leaves

A broken chair

A phonograph
14 What season is it most likely?

Fall

Summer

Winter

Spring
15 What kind of animal bleats?

Chicken

Goat

Dog

Pig
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.

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.
17 Which of the following lines best represents the subject of the poem?

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.

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.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?

Not raggedly

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

As everlasting gold
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

The differences in taste between Beverly residents and the speaker

An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago

The differences in quality of life 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.

Rich people refuse to dye their hair.

The residents of Beverly are vain.

The residents of Beverly have better access to hospitals because of where their neighborhood is.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.

And the living all to be made again in the sweatingest physical manner

They make excellent corpses

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

Pines

Palms

Willows

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

Hateful

Soft

Furious

Gruff
25 What does the speaker want?

To have a beautiful garden

To drink finer teas

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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