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Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1926

1925

1929

1921
2 What was the name of the collection in which the poem appeared?

Copper Sun

The Medea

Color

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

"Clementine"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"

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

"For I was born on Saturday—"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

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

Greed

Pain

Poverty

Sorrow
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Angry and uncompromising

Bitter and humorous

Tragic and bombastic

Forlorn and fatalistic
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCABC

ABAB

ABBC

ABBA
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?

Wolf

Raccoon

Coyote

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

Tar

Sable

Jet

Pitch
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 spoon

A golden apple

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

Sorrow

Pain

Poverty

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

A roll of twine

A sackcloth gown

A silk robe

A bolt of satin
14 What kind of stanzas does the poem have?

Tercets

Couplets

Quintains

Quatrains
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?

The moon and sun

Fire and water

Thunder and lightning

Light and darkness
17 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?

The Harlem Renaissance

Imagism

Futurism

The Black Mountain School
18 How long is the poem?

Four stanzas

Five stanzas

Ten stanzas

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

Unclear

Poor

Suffering

Wealthy
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?

Farmers

His children

Wealthy, white children

His parents
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?

Race

Political upheaval

A bad economy

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

Art

Fate

Fame

Time
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 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

Indifferent

Warm

Harsh

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