Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1926

1921

1929

1925
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"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

"The opulent fairies be;"

"For I was born on Saturday—"
5 Which of the following concepts is NOT personified in the poem?

Greed

Poverty

Pain

Sorrow
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Tragic and bombastic

Bitter and humorous

Forlorn and fatalistic

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

ABAB

ABCABC

ABBC

ABBA
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?

Raccoon

Wolf

Coyote

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

Sable

Tar

Jet

Pitch
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?

Drenched in sweat

Coddled

Soft

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?

Pain

Sorrow

Death

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

A bolt of satin

A sackcloth gown

A roll of twine

A silk robe
14 What kind of stanzas does the poem have?

Tercets

Quintains

Couplets

Quatrains
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?

Free verse

Couplets

Pairs of contrasting images

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

Thunder and lightning

Light and darkness

The moon and sun

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

Imagism

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Unclear

Poor

Suffering
20 Who does the speaker compare himself to?

Wealthy, white children

Farmers

His parents

His children
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 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

Trauma

Political upheaval

A bad economy
23 Which of the following is a theme in the poem?

Fame

Fate

Art

Time
24 What is the climax of the poem?

When the speaker is born

When the speaker runs away from home

When the speaker's father says unkind things about his birth

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow
25 What word best describes the speaker's father's comments about his birth?

Harsh

Excited

Indifferent

Warm

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