Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

Hughes’s grandmother 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

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
I, Too

Mother to Son

The Weary Blues

Fine Clothes of the Jew
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1930

1925

1921

1943
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

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

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?
Dark-faced and pale-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

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

Winter

Spring

Summer
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?
On the front porch

In the field

At the dinner table

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?
A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A type of anaphora

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

“Black slaves”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Walking in the dewy night,”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Present tense

Past tense

Present perfect 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 …
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”?
Free verse

Sonnet

Villanelle

Elegy
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?
Her life experiences

Fairytale books

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Nostalgic

Mournful

Cynical

Optimistic
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
The Black slaves

The brown-faced child

Her son

A new-born child
25 How does the poem end?
The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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

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