Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

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?

James Baldwin

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

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?

1930

1943

1921

1925
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?

"Harlem"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"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

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.
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 ___”

softly

calmly

gently

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

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and stone-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?

On the front porch

In the field

In bed

At the dinner table
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?

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

Prosperity and wealth

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

The flow of time and constant change
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?

“Black slaves”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Summer nights on the front porch”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)

Past tense

Present perfect tense

Present tense

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

Metaphor

Repetition

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Literary critics

Botanists

Pianists

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

The Harlem Renaissance

The Baroque Period

The Gothic Era

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

Sonnet

Elegy

Free verse

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

Alliteration

Simile

Anaphora

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

Greek mythology

Fairytale books

Her life experiences

Contemporary literature
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Optimistic

Nostalgic

Mournful

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

The brown-faced child

The Black slaves

Her son

A new-born child
25 How does the poem end?

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

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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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