Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

John Mercedes 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 grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt Sue
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?
Fine Clothes of the Jew

I, Too

Mother to Son

The Weary Blues
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1943

1921

1925

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

"Harlem"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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.

The dark-faced child is quiet

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river
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 ___”
calmly

softly

quietly

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

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

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

Summer

Fall

Spring
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?
In bed

On the front porch

In the field

At the dinner table
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
Prosperity and wealth

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

The flow of time and constant change

Unseen forces that humans cannot control
14 What is polysyndeton?
Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

A type of anaphora
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Black slaves”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

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

Present perfect tense

Past tense

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

Metaphor

Repetition

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Pianists

Botanists

Abolitionists

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

The Enlightenment Era

The Gothic Era

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

Elegy

Free verse

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

Simile

Oxymoron

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

Her life experiences

Fairytale books

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

Cynical

Mournful

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

A new-born child

The Black slaves

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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