Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

James Mercer Langston Hughes

John Michael Langston Hughes

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

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

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s grandmother 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?

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin

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

I, Too

Mother to Son

The Weary Blues
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?

1930

1921

1925

1943
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?

"I, Too"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?

The dark-faced child is quiet

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

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”?

Death

Infidelity

Heritage

Romance
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 stone-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

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

Summer

Spring

Fall

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

In the field

In bed

At the dinner table

On the front porch
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 flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Excessive commas in a sentence

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A type of anaphora
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?

“Black slaves”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

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

Present perfect tense

Past tense

Present progressive tense

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

Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Repetition
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Pianists

Botanists

Abolitionists

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

The Enlightenment Era

The Baroque Period

The Gothic Era

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

Free verse

Elegy

Sonnet

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

Anaphora

Alliteration

Oxymoron

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

Fairytale books

Her life experiences

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology
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?

A new-born child

The brown-faced child

Her son

The Black slaves
25 How does the poem end?

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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

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