Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?
John Mercedes Langston Hughes

John Michael Langston Hughes

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes
2 Who is the titular character in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” allegedly based on?
Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes
3 Who was the editor of The Crisis when “Aunt Sue’s Stories” was published in it?
W.E.B. Du Bois

Zora Neale Hurston

James Baldwin

Langston Hughes
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
The Weary Blues

I, Too

Mother to Son

Fine Clothes of the Jew
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1925

1930

1943

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"Harlem"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"I, Too"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?
Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

The dark-faced child is quiet

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Infidelity

Romance

Heritage

Death
9 Finish the line: “In the flow of Aunt Sue’s voice, / Mingle themselves ___”
softly

gently

calmly

quietly
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?
Dark-faced and pale-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced
11 When does the poem take place?
Winter

Fall

Spring

Summer
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?
On the front porch

At the dinner table

In the field

In bed
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
The flow of time and constant change

The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

Prosperity and wealth
14 What is polysyndeton?
A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A type of anaphora

Excessive commas in a sentence
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Black slaves”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Past tense

Present progressive tense

Present perfect tense

Present tense
17 Which literary device is NOT used in “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Repetition

Alliteration
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Botanists

Literary critics

Pianists

Abolitionists
19 What arts and cultural movement was Hughes associated with?
The Harlem Renaissance

The Gothic Era

The Enlightenment Era

The Baroque Period
20 What is the form of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Sonnet

Elegy

Free verse

Villanelle
21 In the first stanza, the repetition of the name “Aunt Sue” is an example of:
Alliteration

Anaphora

Oxymoron

Simile
22 Where do Aunt Sue’s stories come from?
Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

Her life experiences

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Optimistic

Mournful

Nostalgic

Cynical
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
Her son

The brown-faced child

The Black slaves

A new-born child
25 How does the poem end?
The morning sun makes Aunt Sue realize she’s been telling stories all night

The dark-faced child listening to Aunt Sue on a summer night

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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