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1 What is the form of the stanzas?
Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines

Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Rhyming quintets

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

Sick people living in the basement

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

Patch up the road

Rake the leaves

Fix the plumbing
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?
Taking a walk through Beverly

Listening to a phonograph

Driving through Beverly in their car

Looking to buy a home in Beverly
5 The gardens are described as...
Silver

Golden

Glowing

Sparkling
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.

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today

When they flow sweetly into their houses
7 Which of the following is described as "a neat brilliancy"?
The phonograph

The refuse

The tea

The golden gardens
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 record player

A type of telephone

A type of camera

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

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

Annie Allen

The Bean Eaters

A Street in Bronzeville
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A tree with no leaves

A phonograph

A broken chair

A garden hose
14 What season is it most likely?
Winter

Spring

Fall

Summer
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Goat

Pig

Dog

Chicken
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?
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.

When they flow sweetly into their houses / With softness and slowness touched by that everlasting gold, / We know what they go to. To tea.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?
As everlasting gold

With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

Not raggedly
19 Which of the following is an example of personification?
Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

We drive on, we drive on.

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

An indictment of the produce industry in Chicago

The differences in taste between Beverly residents and the speaker

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."
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.

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?
Willows

Palms

Oaks

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

Soft

Gruff

Furious
25 What does the speaker want?
For the people in Beverly to all become poor and experience poverty

To drink finer teas

To have a beautiful garden

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

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