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

John Michael Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

Hughes’s grandmother 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

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

James Baldwin
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
Mother to Son

The Weary Blues

I, Too

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

1921

1925

1943
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"I, Too"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?
The dark-faced child is quiet

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Heritage

Infidelity

Death

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

quietly

softly

calmly
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?
Brown-faced and stone-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Dark-faced and pale-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

In the field

On the front porch

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?
Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Excessive commas in a sentence

A type of anaphora
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.”)
Present perfect tense

Past tense

Present progressive 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

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”?
Villanelle

Sonnet

Elegy

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

Simile

Alliteration

Oxymoron
22 Where do Aunt Sue’s stories come from?
Her life experiences

Fairytale books

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Mournful

Cynical

Optimistic

Nostalgic
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
The Black slaves

A new-born child

Her son

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

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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