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?
The Medea

Copper Sun

Color

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

"Monday's Child"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"
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

Sorrow

Greed

Poverty
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?
ABCABC

ABAB

ABBA

ABBC
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?
Raccoon

Lynx

Wolf

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

Sable

Pitch

Jet
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?
Wrapped in

Soft

Drenched in sweat

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?
Poverty

Pain

Sorrow

Death
13 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
A roll of twine

A bolt of satin

A silk robe

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

Tercets

Couplets

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

Complex metaphors

Pairs of contrasting images

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

The moon and sun

Light and darkness

Fire and water
17 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
The Black Mountain School

Futurism

Imagism

The Harlem Renaissance
18 How long is the poem?
Ten stanzas

Four stanzas

Eight stanzas

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

Unclear

Poor

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

His children

Farmers

His parents
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 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

Political upheaval

Race

Trauma
23 Which of the following is a theme in the poem?
Time

Art

Fate

Fame
24 What is the climax of the poem?
When the speaker is born

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow

When the speaker runs away from home

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?
Harsh

Warm

Indifferent

Excited

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