Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

By John Melendez · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed August 04, 2022

1 When was the poem published?

1929

1926

1925

1921
2 What was the name of the collection in which the poem appeared?

Copper Sun

Color

The Medea

The Black Christ
3 What nursery rhyme does the poem's title reference?

"Clementine"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

"Monday's Child"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

"The opulent fairies be;"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"For I was born on Saturday—"
5 Which of the following concepts is NOT personified in the poem?

Sorrow

Greed

Pain

Poverty
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Bitter and humorous

Angry and uncompromising

Tragic and bombastic

Forlorn and fatalistic
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAB

ABCABC

ABBC

ABBA
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?

Wolf

Coyote

Raccoon

Lynx
9 What shade of black does the speaker describe the night he was born with?

Pitch

Sable

Tar

Jet
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?

Drenched in sweat

Soft

Coddled

Wrapped in
11 What functions as a symbol of privilege in the poem?

A bronze medallion

A silver arrow

A golden apple

A silver spoon
12 What does the speaker say was the only midwife his parents could afford?

Sorrow

Pain

Death

Poverty
13 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

A bolt of satin

A roll of twine

A silk robe

A sackcloth gown
14 What kind of stanzas does the poem have?

Tercets

Couplets

Quintains

Quatrains
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?

Pairs of contrasting images

Free verse

Complex metaphors

Couplets
16 What imagery does the poem use to suggest racial differences?

Fire and water

Light and darkness

Thunder and lightning

The moon and sun
17 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

Imagism

The Black Mountain School

The Harlem Renaissance

Futurism
18 How long is the poem?

Eight stanzas

Ten stanzas

Four stanzas

Five stanzas
19 What does the word "opulent" mean?

Poor

Suffering

Wealthy

Unclear
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?

His parents

Farmers

His children

Wealthy, white children
21 What is the main source of conflict in the poem?

The speaker's envy of other people's wealth

The circumstances that have held back the speaker his whole life

The speaker's difficult birth

The speaker's abusive parents
22 What does the speaker imply contributes significantly to his family's disadvantages?

Race

A bad economy

Political upheaval

Trauma
23 Which of the following is a theme in the poem?

Fame

Time

Art

Fate
24 What is the climax of the poem?

When the speaker is born

When the speaker's father says unkind things about his birth

When the speaker runs away from home

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow
25 What word best describes the speaker's father's comments about his birth?

Warm

Indifferent

Excited

Harsh

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