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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 couplets

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

Children too sick to go to school

Dead leaves

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

Rake the leaves

Fix the tea kettle

Patch up the road
4 What is the speaker doing in the poem?
Driving through Beverly in their car

Looking to buy a home in Beverly

Taking a walk through Beverly

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

Glowing

Silver

Sparkling
6 Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
When they flow sweetly into their houses

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

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today

The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
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 summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

We know what they go to. To tea.

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

They go to perform manual labor

They go to make tea

They go to listen to records
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.

Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people. / At least, nobody driving by in this car.

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?
In the Mecca

A Street in Bronzeville

Annie Allen

The Bean Eaters
13 Which of the following is an example of "refuse"?
A broken chair

A tree with no leaves

A phonograph

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

Fall

Summer

Spring
15 What kind of animal bleats?
Dog

Chicken

Goat

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

We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.

And the refuse, the refuse is a neat brilliancy.

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.

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.
18 How is the Beverly residents' trouble described?
With a gold-flecked beautiful banner

As the juice of the cheapest lemons that are sold

As everlasting gold

Not raggedly
19 Which of the following is an example of personification?
Nobody is furious. Nobody hates these people.

We drive on, we drive on.

And think, while a breath of pine blows,

Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.
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 taste between Beverly residents and the speaker

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."
Rich people refuse to dye their hair.

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

Affluent white people have an easier time living longer than working-class people of color.

The residents of Beverly are vain.
22 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
They make excellent corpses

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

When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff.

Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.
23 What kinds of trees line the streets of Beverly?
Oaks

Palms

Pines

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

Gruff

Soft

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 the same resources and securities as the people in Beverly

To have a beautiful garden

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