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

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt 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?
I, Too

The Weary Blues

Fine Clothes of the Jew

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

1921

1930

1943
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Harlem"

"I, Too"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?
Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

The dark-faced child is quiet

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Infidelity

Romance

Death

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

softly

calmly

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

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

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

Winter

Summer

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

At the dinner table

On the front porch

In the field
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

Prosperity and wealth

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

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A type of anaphora

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.”)
Present tense

Past tense

Present progressive tense

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

Repetition

Metaphor

Alliteration
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Botanists

Literary critics

Pianists

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

The Enlightenment Era

The Gothic Era

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

Villanelle

Free verse

Sonnet
21 In the first stanza, the repetition of the name “Aunt Sue” is an example of:
Oxymoron

Anaphora

Alliteration

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

Her life experiences

Greek mythology

Contemporary literature
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Optimistic

Cynical

Nostalgic

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

Her son

The Black slaves

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

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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

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