Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?
James Mitchell Langston Hughes

John Michael 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?
Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

James Baldwin

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

Fine Clothes of the Jew

The Weary Blues

Mother to Son
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1921

1925

1930

1943
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"I, Too"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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.

The dark-faced child is quiet

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?
Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

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

Spring

Winter

Fall
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?
At the dinner table

In bed

In the field

On the front porch
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
The flow of time and constant change

Prosperity and wealth

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

Unseen forces that humans cannot control
14 What is polysyndeton?
Excessive commas in a sentence

A type of anaphora

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Black slaves”

“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.”)
Present tense

Present progressive tense

Present perfect tense

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

Repetition

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Pianists

Abolitionists

Botanists

Literary critics
19 What arts and cultural movement was Hughes associated with?
The Baroque Period

The Harlem Renaissance

The Gothic Era

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

Elegy

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?
Greek mythology

Contemporary literature

Fairytale books

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

Nostalgic

Cynical

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

The Black slaves

Her son

The brown-faced child
25 How does the poem end?
Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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