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 mother

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

Zora Neale Hurston

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes
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?
1921

1930

1943

1925
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"Harlem"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"I, Too"
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

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

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

Heritage

Infidelity

Death
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 brown-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

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

Fall

Spring

Summer
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?
At the dinner table

On the front porch

In bed

In the field
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
The flow of time and constant change

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

Prosperity and wealth

The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage
14 What is polysyndeton?
Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence

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?
“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

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

Present progressive tense

Present perfect tense

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

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Literary critics

Botanists

Abolitionists

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:
Simile

Alliteration

Oxymoron

Anaphora
22 Where do Aunt Sue’s stories come from?
Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

Fairytale books

Her life experiences
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Optimistic

Nostalgic

Cynical

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

The Black slaves

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 brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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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