Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1925

1926

1921

1929
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?
"Monday's Child"

"Clementine"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"
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

Pain

Sorrow
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Forlorn and fatalistic

Bitter and humorous

Angry and uncompromising

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

ABAB

ABBA

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

Raccoon

Wolf

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

Sable

Pitch

Tar
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?
Soft

Drenched in sweat

Coddled

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

A silver spoon

A golden apple

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

Death

Pain

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

A roll of twine

A bolt of satin

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

Couplets

Quintains

Tercets
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?
Free verse

Complex metaphors

Couplets

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

Thunder and lightning

Light and darkness

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

Imagism

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Four stanzas

Ten stanzas

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

Suffering

Poor

Unclear
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?
His parents

Farmers

Wealthy, white children

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 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?
Race

Political upheaval

Trauma

A bad economy
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 describes his midwife as sorrow

When the speaker runs away from home

When the speaker is born

When the speaker's father says unkind things about his birth
25 What word best describes the speaker's father's comments about his birth?
Excited

Warm

Harsh

Indifferent

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