Saturday’s Child Quizzes

Saturday's Child Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1921

1925

1929

1926
2 What was the name of the collection in which the poem appeared?
Copper Sun

Color

The Medea

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?
"The opulent fairies be;"

"For I was born on Saturday—"

"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,"

"Death cut the strings that gave me life,"
5 Which of the following concepts is NOT personified in the poem?
Sorrow

Greed

Pain

Poverty
6 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Tragic and bombastic

Forlorn and fatalistic

Angry and uncompromising

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

ABBA

ABBC

ABAB
8 What animal does the speaker compare himself to?
Coyote

Lynx

Wolf

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

Pitch

Tar

Sable
10 What does the word "swaddled" mean?
Soft

Wrapped in

Drenched in sweat

Coddled
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

Poverty

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

A silk robe

A sackcloth gown

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

Quatrains

Quintains

Couplets
15 What does Cullen frequently use in his poems?
Pairs of contrasting images

Couplets

Free verse

Complex metaphors
16 What imagery does the poem use to suggest racial differences?
The moon and sun

Thunder and lightning

Light and darkness

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?
Five stanzas

Ten stanzas

Four stanzas

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

Suffering

Unclear

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 circumstances that have held back the speaker his whole life

The speaker's abusive parents

The speaker's difficult birth

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

Trauma

Political upheaval

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

Fame

Art

Time
24 What is the climax of the poem?
When the speaker's father says unkind things about his birth

When the speaker describes his midwife as sorrow

When the speaker is born

When the speaker runs away from home
25 What word best describes the speaker's father's comments about his birth?
Harsh

Indifferent

Warm

Excited

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