Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

John Michael 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?
I, Too

Mother to Son

Fine Clothes of the Jew

The Weary Blues
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1930

1921

1925

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?
Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

Aunt Sue has a head full of 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

Heritage

Romance

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

softly

calmly

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

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced
11 When does the poem take place?
Spring

Summer

Winter

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

On the front porch

At the dinner table

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

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

Prosperity and wealth
14 What is polysyndeton?
A type of anaphora

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Excessive commas in a sentence
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.”)
Past tense

Present perfect tense

Present tense

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

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Botanists

Abolitionists

Literary critics

Pianists
19 What arts and cultural movement was Hughes associated with?
The Harlem Renaissance

The Gothic Era

The Baroque Period

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

Villanelle

Sonnet

Free verse
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?
Her life experiences

Fairytale books

Contemporary literature

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

Optimistic

Mournful

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

The brown-faced child

The Black slaves

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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