The following poem is about pennies and what people thought about pennies a long time ago. Today, people don't too much attention to pennies because they don't buy very much. But that wasn't true in the past. A boy or girl who found a penny was very lucky. Some people even collected unique pennies in special blue folders. Kids would use pennies to buy special candy on strips of paper, or a sweet syrup, or another kind of candy called a Mary Jane.

Pennies
By: Lewis Gardner

It used to be good luck to find one.
Some were steel, some had the profile
Of an Indian. Boys pressed collections
Into the round slots of blue folders.
Now they are trash, a nuisance,
Stored in cans and jars
Till they're rolled up for the bank.
Listen Kids: this copper-colored disk
Could transform a summer morning,
Redeemed at the corner store
For a paper strip of candy dots
In four colors, a wax bottle
Of Grape or cherry syrups, or a crunchy, 
Peanut-flavored Mary Jane.

1. What is the "copper-colored disk?"
	A. A kind of candy
	B. A penny
	C. A kind of trash
	D. The sun

The anwser is B.