Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

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

James Baldwin

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

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?

1943

1925

1930

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"I, Too"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?

The dark-faced child is quiet

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?

Death

Heritage

Infidelity

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

calmly

gently

quietly

softly
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

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

Spring

Fall

Summer

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

In the field

On the front porch

In bed

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

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

Prosperity and wealth

The flow of time and constant change
14 What is polysyndeton?

A type of anaphora

Excessive commas in a sentence

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”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Black slaves”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)

Past tense

Present tense

Present progressive tense

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

Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Repetition
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Literary critics

Abolitionists

Botanists

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

The Baroque Period

The Gothic Era

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Villanelle

Free verse

Elegy

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

Anaphora

Simile

Alliteration

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

Her life experiences

Greek mythology

Contemporary literature

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Nostalgic

Mournful

Cynical

Optimistic
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?

The Black slaves

Her son

The brown-faced child

A new-born child
25 How does the poem end?

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

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

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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