Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1929

1921

1926

1925
2 What was the name of the collection in which the poem appeared?

Copper Sun

Color

The Black Christ

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

"Monday's Child"

"Clementine"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

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

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"For I was born on Saturday—"

"The opulent fairies be;"
5 Which of the following concepts is NOT personified in the poem?

Sorrow

Poverty

Greed

Pain
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Bitter and humorous

Tragic and bombastic

Forlorn and fatalistic

Angry and uncompromising
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCABC

ABAB

ABBA

ABBC
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?

Coyote

Lynx

Raccoon

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

Pitch

Sable

Jet

Tar
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?

Wrapped in

Soft

Drenched in sweat

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

A silver spoon

A bronze medallion

A golden apple

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

Pain

Death

Poverty

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

A bolt of satin

A silk robe

A roll of twine

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Quintains

Tercets
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?

Pairs of contrasting images

Couplets

Complex metaphors

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

Fire and water

The moon and sun

Light and darkness

Thunder and lightning
17 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Harlem Renaissance

Imagism

Futurism

The Black Mountain School
18 How long is the poem?

Five stanzas

Eight stanzas

Four stanzas

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

Poor

Suffering

Unclear

Wealthy
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?

Wealthy, white children

Farmers

His children

His parents
21 What is the main source of conflict in the poem?

The speaker's envy of other people's wealth

The speaker's difficult birth

The speaker's abusive parents

The circumstances that have held back the speaker his whole life
22 What does the speaker imply contributes significantly to his family's disadvantages?

Trauma

Race

A bad economy

Political upheaval
23 Which of the following is a theme in the poem?

Fame

Time

Fate

Art
24 What is the climax of the poem?

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow

When the speaker is born

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

When the speaker runs away from home
25 What word best describes the speaker's father's comments about his birth?

Harsh

Warm

Indifferent

Excited

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