Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

James Mercer Langston Hughes

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother
3 Who was the editor of The Crisis when “Aunt Sue’s Stories” was published in it?
Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

Zora Neale Hurston

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

I, Too

Fine Clothes of the Jew

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"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

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

The dark-faced child is quiet

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”?
Death

Romance

Heritage

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

calmly

softly

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?
Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter
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?
Prosperity and wealth

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
14 What is polysyndeton?
Excessive commas in a sentence

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

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?
“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.”)
Present perfect tense

Present tense

Past tense

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

Repetition

Alliteration

Metaphor
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Abolitionists

Botanists

Literary critics

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

Villanelle

Elegy
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?
Contemporary literature

Her life experiences

Greek mythology

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Nostalgic

Mournful

Cynical

Optimistic
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 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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