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 Mercedes 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 grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

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

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

James Baldwin

W.E.B. Du Bois
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?

1943

1921

1930

1925
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?

The dark-faced child is quiet

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

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

Heritage

Death

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

gently

quietly

calmly

softly
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

Winter

Fall
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?

The flow of time and constant change

Prosperity and wealth

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

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

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence

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

“Black slaves”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“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.”)

Past tense

Present perfect tense

Present progressive tense

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

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Repetition

Metaphor
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Pianists

Botanists

Literary critics

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

The Enlightenment Era

The Gothic Era

The Harlem Renaissance

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

Free verse

Sonnet

Villanelle

Elegy
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

Contemporary literature

Her life experiences

Greek mythology
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Cynical

Optimistic

Mournful

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

A new-born child

The Black slaves

Her son

The brown-faced child
25 How does the poem end?

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

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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