Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1926

1929

1921

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

The Black Christ

The Medea

Copper Sun

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

"Clementine"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

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

"For I was born on Saturday—"

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"The opulent fairies be;"
5 Which of the following concepts is NOT personified in the poem?

Poverty

Sorrow

Greed

Pain
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Bitter and humorous

Angry and uncompromising

Forlorn and fatalistic

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

ABBA

ABAB

ABBC

ABCABC
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?

Lynx

Raccoon

Coyote

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

Jet

Pitch

Sable

Tar
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?

Coddled

Soft

Drenched in sweat

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

A bronze medallion

A silver arrow

A silver spoon

A golden apple
12 What does the speaker say was the only midwife his parents could afford?

Sorrow

Pain

Death

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

A bolt of satin

A sackcloth gown

A silk robe

A roll of twine
14 What kind of stanzas does the poem have?

Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets

Quintains
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?

Complex metaphors

Free verse

Pairs of contrasting images

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

Light and darkness

Fire and water

Thunder and lightning

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

The Harlem Renaissance

Imagism

Futurism

The Black Mountain School
18 How long is the poem?

Ten stanzas

Five stanzas

Four stanzas

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

Wealthy

Suffering

Poor

Unclear
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?

His children

Wealthy, white children

His parents

Farmers
21 What is the main source of conflict in the poem?

The speaker's abusive parents

The speaker's envy of other people's wealth

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?

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's father says unkind things about his birth

When the speaker is born

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow

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

Excited

Harsh

Indifferent

Warm

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