Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

James Mercer Langston Hughes

James Mitchell 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 Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother

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

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

W.E.B. Du Bois

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

I, Too

The Weary Blues

Mother to Son

Fine Clothes of the Jew
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?

1921

1930

1943

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

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Harlem"

"I, Too"

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

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

The dark-faced child is quiet
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?

Death

Heritage

Romance

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

quietly

gently

softly

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

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

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

Winter

Summer

Fall

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

At the dinner table

On the front porch

In bed

In the field
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

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

Prosperity and wealth

The flow of time and constant change
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?

“Black slaves”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“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 perfect tense

Present tense

Past tense

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

Repetition

Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Abolitionists

Literary critics

Botanists

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

The Enlightenment Era

The Baroque Period

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Elegy

Free verse

Sonnet

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

Anaphora

Alliteration

Oxymoron

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

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

Her life experiences

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Mournful

Nostalgic

Optimistic

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

A new-born child

Her son

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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