Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

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

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s mother

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?
Zora Neale Hurston

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
Fine Clothes of the Jew

The Weary Blues

Mother to Son

I, Too
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1925

1930

1921

1943
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"I, Too"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?
Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

The dark-faced child is quiet

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river
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?
Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

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

Spring

Summer

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

At the dinner table

In the field

In bed
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
Unseen forces that humans cannot control

Prosperity and wealth

The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage

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?
“Black slaves”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Past tense

Present perfect tense

Present progressive tense

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

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Alliteration
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Abolitionists

Pianists

Botanists

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

The Baroque Period

The Enlightenment Era

The Harlem Renaissance
20 What is the form of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?
Free verse

Elegy

Villanelle

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?
Contemporary literature

Her life experiences

Fairytale books

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

Optimistic

Cynical

Nostalgic
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
The brown-faced child

A new-born child

Her son

The Black slaves
25 How does the poem end?
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

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

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