Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1929

1925

1926

1921
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?

"Row Row Row Your Boat"

"Monday's Child"

"Clementine"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"
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

Greed

Sorrow

Poverty
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Forlorn and fatalistic

Tragic and bombastic

Angry and uncompromising

Bitter and humorous
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBC

ABBA

ABAB

ABCABC
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?

Wolf

Raccoon

Lynx

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

Pitch

Jet

Tar

Sable
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?

Coddled

Wrapped in

Drenched in sweat

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

A golden apple

A bronze medallion

A silver arrow

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

Poverty

Pain

Death

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

A sackcloth gown

A roll of twine

A silk robe

A bolt of satin
14 What kind of stanzas does the poem have?

Couplets

Tercets

Quatrains

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?

Light and darkness

Fire and water

The moon and sun

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

Imagism

The Black Mountain School

Futurism

The Harlem Renaissance
18 How long is the poem?

Five stanzas

Eight stanzas

Ten stanzas

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

Unclear

Suffering

Poor

Wealthy
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?

Wealthy, white children

Farmers

His parents

His children
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

Time

Art

Fate
24 What is the climax of the poem?

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

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow

When the speaker runs away from home

When the speaker is born
25 What word best describes the speaker's father's comments about his birth?

Warm

Harsh

Indifferent

Excited

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