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

Rhyming couplets

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

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

Dead leaves

The dry soil at the end of summer

Children too sick to go to school
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?
Driving through Beverly in their car

Listening to a phonograph

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

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

Sparkling

Glowing

Golden
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 refuse

The phonograph

The golden gardens

The tea
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?
The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

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

We know what they go to. To tea.
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 bed

They go to listen to records

They go to make tea

They go to perform manual labor
11 Which of the following is an example of relative suffering?
Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people. / At least, nobody driving by in this car.

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.

While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."
12 In what collection did this poem first appear?
A Street in Bronzeville

The Bean Eaters

In the Mecca

Annie Allen
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A garden hose

A broken chair

A tree with no leaves

A phonograph
14 What season is it most likely?
Summer

Spring

Winter

Fall
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Pig

Goat

Dog

Chicken
16 Which of the following is an example of personification?
It is just that so often they live till their hair is white.

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.

While downstairs that woman's vague phonograph bleats, "Knock me a kiss."

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.
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.

We do not want them to have less. / But it is only natural that we should think we have not enough.

That we may look at them, in their gardens where / The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
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?
Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.

And think, while a breath of pine blows,

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

We drive on, we drive on.
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."
The residents of Beverly are vain.

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 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.

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

They make excellent corpses
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?
Oaks

Pines

Willows

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

Gruff

Furious

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

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

To have a beautiful garden

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

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