Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1929

1921

1926

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

The Black Christ

Color

The Medea
3 What nursery rhyme does the poem's title reference?
"Clementine"

"Monday's Child"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

"The opulent fairies be;"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"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?
Bitter and humorous

Forlorn and fatalistic

Tragic and bombastic

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

ABBA

ABBC

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

Coyote

Lynx

Raccoon
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?
Wrapped in

Drenched in sweat

Soft

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

A silver spoon

A bronze medallion

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

Death

Poverty

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

A bolt of satin

A roll of twine

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

Quatrains

Tercets

Quintains
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?
Complex metaphors

Pairs of contrasting images

Couplets

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

Fire and water

Light and darkness

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

Futurism

The Black Mountain School

Imagism
18 How long is the poem?
Eight stanzas

Ten stanzas

Four stanzas

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

Suffering

Unclear

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

His parents

His children

Farmers
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?
A bad economy

Political upheaval

Trauma

Race
23 Which of the following is a theme in the poem?
Fate

Art

Time

Fame
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

Warm

Indifferent

Harsh

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