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?

Color

The Black Christ

The Medea

Copper Sun
3 What nursery rhyme does the poem's title reference?

"Monday's Child"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

"Clementine"
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"The opulent fairies be;"

"For I was born on Saturday—"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"
5 Which of the following concepts is NOT personified in the poem?

Poverty

Greed

Sorrow

Pain
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Forlorn and fatalistic

Bitter and humorous

Tragic and bombastic

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

ABBC

ABAB

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?

Jet

Sable

Tar

Pitch
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?

Drenched in sweat

Wrapped in

Soft

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

A silver arrow

A bronze medallion

A golden apple

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

Poverty

Death

Sorrow

Pain
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

Quintains

Tercets

Quatrains
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?

Complex metaphors

Couplets

Free verse

Pairs of contrasting images
16 What imagery does the poem use to suggest racial differences?

The moon and sun

Light and darkness

Thunder and lightning

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

Futurism

The Black Mountain School

Imagism

The Harlem Renaissance
18 How long is the poem?

Eight stanzas

Ten stanzas

Four stanzas

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

Suffering

Unclear

Poor

Wealthy
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?

Farmers

His parents

Wealthy, white children

His children
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 circumstances that have held back the speaker his whole life

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

A bad economy

Race

Trauma

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

Time

Art

Fame

Fate
24 What is the climax of the poem?

When the speaker runs away from home

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow

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

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

Harsh

Warm

Excited

Indifferent

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