Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1929

1926

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?
"Monday's Child"

"Row Row Row Your Boat"

"Clementine"

"London Bridge is Falling Down"
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"For I was born on Saturday—"

"The opulent fairies be;"
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?
Angry and uncompromising

Forlorn and fatalistic

Tragic and bombastic

Bitter and humorous
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBC

ABCABC

ABAB

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

Lynx

Raccoon

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

Pitch

Tar

Jet
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?
Drenched in sweat

Wrapped in

Soft

Coddled
11 What functions as a symbol of privilege in the poem?
A silver arrow

A bronze medallion

A silver spoon

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

Pain

Poverty

Sorrow
13 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
A sackcloth gown

A silk robe

A bolt of satin

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

Tercets

Quintains

Quatrains
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?
Couplets

Free verse

Complex metaphors

Pairs of contrasting images
16 What imagery does the poem use to suggest racial differences?
The moon and sun

Light and darkness

Fire and water

Thunder and lightning
17 What literary movement was Cullen associated with?
Futurism

The Harlem Renaissance

Imagism

The Black Mountain School
18 How long is the poem?
Five stanzas

Ten stanzas

Eight stanzas

Four stanzas
19 What does the word "opulent" mean?
Poor

Suffering

Wealthy

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

Farmers

His children

His parents
21 What is the main source of conflict in the poem?
The speaker's abusive parents

The speaker's difficult birth

The circumstances that have held back the speaker his whole life

The speaker's envy of other people's wealth
22 What does the speaker imply contributes significantly to his family's disadvantages?
Political upheaval

Trauma

Race

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 is born

When the speaker runs away from home

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow

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?
Warm

Harsh

Excited

Indifferent

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