Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

James Mercer Langston Hughes

John Michael Langston Hughes

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt 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?

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

James Baldwin

Zora Neale Hurston
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?

The Weary Blues

I, Too

Fine Clothes of the Jew

Mother to Son
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"

"I, Too"

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

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

The dark-faced child is quiet

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?

Infidelity

Death

Romance

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

quietly

calmly

gently

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

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

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

Fall

Spring

Summer

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

At the dinner table

On the front porch

In the field

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

The flow of time and constant change

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

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

Prosperity and wealth
14 What is polysyndeton?

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence

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?

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Black slaves”
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

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration
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 Baroque Period

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

Sonnet

Free verse

Villanelle

Elegy
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?

Her life experiences

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Cynical

Mournful

Nostalgic

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

The Black slaves

The brown-faced child

A new-born child

Her son
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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