Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

James Mercer Langston Hughes

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s mother

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

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
I, Too

The Weary Blues

Fine Clothes of the Jew

Mother to Son
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1925

1943

1921

1930
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"I, Too"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?
Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

The dark-faced child is quiet

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

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

Death

Infidelity

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

gently

quietly

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

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced
11 When does the poem take place?
Summer

Fall

Winter

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

On the front porch

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

Prosperity and wealth

Unseen forces that humans cannot control
14 What is polysyndeton?
A type of anaphora

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“Walking in the dewy night,”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Black slaves”

“Summer nights on the front porch”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Past tense

Present perfect tense

Present progressive tense

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

Alliteration

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Abolitionists

Literary critics

Botanists

Pianists
19 What arts and cultural movement was Hughes associated with?
The Enlightenment Era

The Gothic Era

The Baroque Period

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

Free verse

Elegy

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

Oxymoron

Simile

Alliteration
22 Where do Aunt Sue’s stories come from?
Fairytale books

Greek mythology

Contemporary literature

Her life experiences
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Mournful

Optimistic

Nostalgic

Cynical
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
The brown-faced child

A new-born child

Her son

The Black slaves
25 How does the poem end?
The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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

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