Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

John Michael Langston Hughes

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

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

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

James Baldwin

Zora Neale Hurston
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?

1943

1930

1925

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Harlem"

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

The dark-faced child is quiet

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

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

Heritage

Romance

Infidelity

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

calmly

quietly

softly

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

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

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

Fall

Summer

Winter

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

At the dinner table

In the field

On the front porch

In bed
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

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

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

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Excessive commas in a sentence

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,”

“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 progressive tense

Present tense

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

Repetition

Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Literary critics

Pianists

Abolitionists

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

The Baroque Period

The Enlightenment Era

The Gothic Era

The Harlem Renaissance
20 What is the form of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?

Villanelle

Elegy

Sonnet

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

Anaphora

Oxymoron

Alliteration

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

Greek mythology

Contemporary literature

Her life experiences

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Mournful

Optimistic

Cynical

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

Her son

A new-born child

The brown-faced child

The Black slaves
25 How does the poem end?

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

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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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