Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?
James Mercer Langston Hughes

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

John Michael Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes
3 Who was the editor of The Crisis when “Aunt Sue’s Stories” was published in it?
Zora Neale Hurston

James Baldwin

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
I, Too

Mother to Son

The Weary Blues

Fine Clothes of the Jew
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1930

1925

1943

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"I, Too"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Harlem"

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

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

The dark-faced child is quiet
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Heritage

Romance

Death

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

softly

gently

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?
Fall

Winter

Summer

Spring
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?
At the dinner table

On the front porch

In bed

In the field
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage

The flow of time and constant change

Prosperity and wealth

Unseen forces that humans cannot control
14 What is polysyndeton?
A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

A type of anaphora

Excessive commas in a sentence

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

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

Present perfect tense

Present tense

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

Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Botanists

Abolitionists

Pianists

Literary critics
19 What arts and cultural movement was Hughes associated with?
The Baroque Period

The Gothic Era

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Elegy

Villanelle

Free verse
21 In the first stanza, the repetition of the name “Aunt Sue” is an example of:
Oxymoron

Anaphora

Alliteration

Simile
22 Where do Aunt Sue’s stories come from?
Greek mythology

Contemporary literature

Her life experiences

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

Nostalgic

Cynical

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

A new-born child

The brown-faced child

The Black slaves
25 How does the poem end?
The dark-faced child listening to Aunt Sue on a summer night

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

The morning sun makes Aunt Sue realize she’s been telling stories all night

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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