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 Sue

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes
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

1943

1925

1930
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"I, Too"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Harlem"
7 Which line from “Aunt Sue’s Stories” does not have alliteration?

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

The dark-faced child is quiet
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?

Heritage

Death

Romance

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

softly

calmly

quietly

gently
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?

Brown-faced and stone-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-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 bed

On the front porch

In the field

At the dinner table
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?

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

A type of anaphora

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Black slaves”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Summer nights on the front porch”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)

Present progressive tense

Past tense

Present perfect tense

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

Metaphor

Repetition

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Abolitionists

Literary critics

Botanists

Pianists
19 What arts and cultural movement was Hughes associated with?

The Harlem Renaissance

The Baroque Period

The Enlightenment Era

The Gothic Era
20 What is the form of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?

Sonnet

Free verse

Villanelle

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

Anaphora

Alliteration

Simile

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

Her life experiences

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Optimistic

Nostalgic

Mournful

Cynical
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?

The Black slaves

The brown-faced child

A new-born child

Her son
25 How does the poem end?

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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

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