Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1925

1929

1926

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

Copper Sun

The Black Christ

Color

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

"Row Row Row Your Boat"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

"Clementine"

"Monday's Child"
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"The opulent fairies be;"

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

Pain

Sorrow

Greed

Poverty
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Angry and uncompromising

Bitter and humorous

Tragic and bombastic

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

ABBA

ABAB

ABBC

ABCABC
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

Tar

Sable

Jet
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?

Coddled

Soft

Wrapped in

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

A silver spoon

A golden apple

A silver arrow

A bronze medallion
12 What does the speaker say was the only midwife his parents could afford?

Sorrow

Pain

Poverty

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

A roll of twine

A bolt of satin

A silk robe

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?

Couplets

Free verse

Pairs of contrasting images

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

Light and darkness

The moon and sun

Thunder and lightning

Fire and water
17 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Harlem Renaissance

The Black Mountain School

Futurism

Imagism
18 How long is the poem?

Eight stanzas

Five stanzas

Four stanzas

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

Suffering

Wealthy

Poor

Unclear
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?

Farmers

His children

Wealthy, white children

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

The speaker's difficult birth

The speaker's envy of other people's wealth

The circumstances that have held back the speaker his whole life

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

A bad economy

Political upheaval

Trauma

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

Fame

Art

Fate

Time
24 What is the climax of the poem?

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow

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

When the speaker is born

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

Warm

Harsh

Indifferent

Excited

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