Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

John Michael Langston Hughes

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

James Mercer 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?

James Baldwin

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?

The Weary Blues

I, Too

Fine Clothes of the Jew

Mother to Son
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?

1943

1925

1921

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

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"I, Too"

"Harlem"

"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.

The dark-faced child is quiet

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Listening to Aunt Sue’s 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 ___”

calmly

softly

gently

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

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and stone-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

Prosperity and wealth

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage
14 What is polysyndeton?

A type of anaphora

Excessive commas in a sentence

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

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

Past tense

Present tense

Present progressive tense

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

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Metaphor

Repetition
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 Gothic Era

The Baroque Period

The Enlightenment Era
20 What is the form of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?

Sonnet

Free verse

Elegy

Villanelle
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?

Contemporary literature

Fairytale books

Greek mythology

Her life experiences
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Optimistic

Cynical

Nostalgic

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

The brown-faced child

A new-born child

The Black slaves

Her son
25 How does the poem end?

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

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

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