Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

James Mercer 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 Sue

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes
3 Who was the editor of The Crisis when “Aunt Sue’s Stories” was published in it?
Zora Neale Hurston

James Baldwin

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
Mother to Son

I, Too

Fine Clothes of the Jew

The Weary Blues
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1943

1930

1925

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"I, Too"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Harlem"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?
The dark-faced child is quiet

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river
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 ___”
softly

calmly

quietly

gently
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?
Dark-faced and brown-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

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

Spring

Fall

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

On the front porch

In the field

At the dinner table
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage

The flow of time and constant change

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

Prosperity and wealth
14 What is polysyndeton?
A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence

A type of anaphora
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“Black slaves”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Summer nights on the front porch”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Present progressive tense

Present tense

Past tense

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

Repetition

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor
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 Baroque Period

The Gothic Era

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

Free verse

Villanelle

Sonnet
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?
Fairytale books

Her life experiences

Contemporary literature

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

Mournful

Nostalgic

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

The Black slaves

A new-born child

The brown-faced child
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

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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