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 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 Sue

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

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

James Baldwin

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
The Weary Blues

Mother to Son

I, Too

Fine Clothes of the Jew
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1921

1925

1943

1930
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.

The dark-faced child is quiet

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

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

Death

Infidelity

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

quietly

calmly

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?
Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer
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?
A type of anaphora

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

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?
“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Black slaves”

“Walking in the dewy night,”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Present progressive tense

Present perfect tense

Past tense

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

Metaphor

Alliteration

Repetition
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Literary critics

Botanists

Pianists

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

The Enlightenment Era

The Harlem Renaissance

The Baroque Period
20 What is the form of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Villanelle

Elegy

Free verse

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

Oxymoron

Alliteration

Anaphora
22 Where do Aunt Sue’s stories come from?
Her life experiences

Fairytale books

Greek mythology

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

Optimistic

Nostalgic

Mournful
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?
The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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

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