Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?
John Mercedes Langston Hughes

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

James Mercer 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 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?
James Baldwin

W.E.B. Du Bois

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
I, Too

The Weary Blues

Mother to Son

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

1930

1925

1943
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"I, Too"

"Harlem"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?
Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

The dark-faced child is quiet

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

Infidelity

Heritage

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

calmly

gently

softly
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?
Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-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?
In bed

In the field

On the front porch

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?
Excessive commas in a sentence

A type of anaphora

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?
“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.”)
Present tense

Past tense

Present perfect tense

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

Alliteration

Repetition

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Botanists

Abolitionists

Pianists

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

The Enlightenment Era

The Gothic Era

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

Sonnet

Free verse

Villanelle
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?
Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

Fairytale books

Her life experiences
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 dark-faced child listening to Aunt Sue on a summer night

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

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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