Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

John Michael Langston Hughes

James Mitchell 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 mother

Hughes’s Aunt Sue
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?
Fine Clothes of the Jew

The Weary Blues

I, Too

Mother to Son
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1925

1943

1930

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"I, Too"

"Harlem"

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

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

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

Heritage

Death

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

softly

quietly

calmly
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?
Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

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

Spring

Summer

Fall
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?
In the field

On the front porch

At the dinner table

In bed
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
The flow of time and constant change

Prosperity and wealth

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage
14 What is polysyndeton?
Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A type of anaphora

Excessive commas in a sentence

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Black slaves”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“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.”)
Past tense

Present perfect tense

Present progressive tense

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

Repetition

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Abolitionists

Literary critics

Botanists

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

The Harlem Renaissance

The Baroque Period

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:
Simile

Alliteration

Anaphora

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

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

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

Cynical

Mournful

Nostalgic
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
Her son

The Black slaves

The brown-faced child

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

The morning sun makes Aunt Sue realize she’s been telling stories all night

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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

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