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1 What is the form of the stanzas?

Tercets with end-rhymed second and fourth lines

Rhyming quintets

Rhyming couplets

Tercets with end-rhymed first and third lines
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?

Patch up the road

Rake the leaves

Fix the tea kettle

Fix the plumbing
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?

Listening to a phonograph

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Driving through Beverly in their car

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

Glowing

Golden

Sparkling

Silver
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

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

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
7 Which of the following is described as "a neat brilliancy"?

The refuse

The phonograph

The tea

The golden gardens
8 Which of the following is an example of personification?

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

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

We know what they go to. To tea.

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
9 What is a phonograph?

A radio

A record player

A type of telephone

A type of camera
10 What do the residents of Beverly "go to" when they enter their houses?

They go to make tea

They go to listen to records

They go to perform manual labor

They go to bed
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.

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.
12 In what collection did this poem first appear?

Annie Allen

A Street in Bronzeville

In the Mecca

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

Winter

Fall

Summer
15 What kind of animal bleats?

Chicken

Goat

Dog

Pig
16 Which of the following is an example of personification?

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.

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?

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.

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?

Not raggedly

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

As everlasting gold

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.

And think, while a breath of pine blows,

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

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."

Rich people refuse to dye their hair.

The residents of Beverly have better access to hospitals because of where their neighborhood is.

The residents of Beverly are vain.

Affluent white people have an easier time living longer than working-class people of color.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

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

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

Pines

Willows

Palms

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

Furious

Gruff

Soft

Hateful
25 What does the speaker want?

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

To have a beautiful garden

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

To drink finer teas

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