Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1921

1929

1926

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

The Medea

The Black Christ

Copper Sun
3 What nursery rhyme does the poem's title reference?
"Row Row Row Your Boat"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

"Monday's Child"

"Clementine"
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

"The opulent fairies be;"

"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?
Angry and uncompromising

Forlorn and fatalistic

Bitter and humorous

Tragic and bombastic
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAB

ABBC

ABBA

ABCABC
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?
Coyote

Wolf

Lynx

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

Tar

Jet

Sable
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?
Drenched in sweat

Coddled

Wrapped in

Soft
11 What functions as a symbol of privilege in the poem?
A silver arrow

A golden apple

A silver spoon

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

Poverty

Sorrow

Death
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?
Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets

Quintains
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?
Couplets

Pairs of contrasting images

Complex metaphors

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

Light and darkness

Fire and water

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

The Harlem Renaissance

Imagism

The Black Mountain School
18 How long is the poem?
Ten stanzas

Five stanzas

Eight stanzas

Four stanzas
19 What does the word "opulent" mean?
Poor

Suffering

Unclear

Wealthy
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?
Wealthy, white children

His children

His parents

Farmers
21 What is the main source of conflict in the poem?
The speaker's envy of other people's wealth

The speaker's abusive parents

The speaker's difficult birth

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

A bad economy

Political upheaval

Race
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 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?
Harsh

Warm

Excited

Indifferent

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