Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?
John Mercedes Langston Hughes

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

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

James Baldwin

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes
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?
1930

1925

1943

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"I, Too"
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 ___”
gently

calmly

quietly

softly
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?
Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

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

Spring

Summer

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

At the dinner table

On the front porch

In the field
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
Unseen forces that humans cannot control

The flow of time and constant change

Prosperity and wealth

The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage
14 What is polysyndeton?
A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

A type of anaphora

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Black slaves”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Present progressive tense

Present tense

Past 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

Abolitionists

Literary critics

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

The Gothic Era

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Villanelle

Sonnet

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

Anaphora

Simile

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

Greek mythology

Fairytale books

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

Optimistic

Mournful

Cynical
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
A new-born child

Her son

The Black slaves

The brown-faced child
25 How does the poem end?
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

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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