Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

John Michael Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes

James Mitchell 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 mother

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

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

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

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

The Weary Blues

Mother to Son

I, Too

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

1921

1943

1925

1930
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?

"Harlem"

"I, Too"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"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

quietly

gently

softly
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced
11 When does the poem take place?

Fall

Spring

Summer

Winter
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?

In the field

On the front porch

At the dinner table

In bed
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

Prosperity and wealth

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

The flow of time and constant change
14 What is polysyndeton?

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A type of anaphora

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?

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

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

Present progressive tense

Present tense

Present perfect tense

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

Repetition

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Metaphor
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Literary critics

Pianists

Abolitionists

Botanists
19 What arts and cultural movement was Hughes associated with?

The Harlem Renaissance

The Gothic Era

The Baroque Period

The Enlightenment Era
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:

Simile

Anaphora

Oxymoron

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

Her life experiences

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Nostalgic

Mournful

Optimistic

Cynical
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?

A new-born child

The brown-faced child

Her son

The Black slaves
25 How does the poem end?

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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

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

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