Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

John Michael Langston Hughes

James Mercer 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

James Baldwin

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
Fine Clothes of the Jew

The Weary Blues

Mother to Son

I, Too
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1921

1925

1930

1943
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"I, Too"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?
Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

The dark-faced child is quiet

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Infidelity

Death

Heritage

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

quietly

calmly

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

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced
11 When does the poem take place?
Winter

Spring

Fall

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

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

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

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

Excessive commas in a sentence

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

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 tense

Present progressive tense

Present perfect tense

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

Alliteration

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Pianists

Botanists

Abolitionists

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

The Gothic Era

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Villanelle

Elegy

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

Simile

Alliteration

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

Fairytale books

Greek mythology

Her life experiences
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?
The Black slaves

Her son

A new-born child

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

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

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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

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