Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

John Michael 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 grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother

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

James Baldwin

Zora Neale Hurston

W.E.B. Du Bois
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?

The Weary Blues

Fine Clothes of the Jew

Mother to Son

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

1921

1925

1930

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

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"I, Too"

"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.

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river
8 Which is a theme of “Aunt Sue’s Stories”?

Death

Romance

Infidelity

Heritage
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 brown-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced
11 When does the poem take place?

Summer

Fall

Winter

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

In bed

On the front porch

At the dinner table

In the field
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?

Prosperity and wealth

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

The flow of time and constant change

The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage
14 What is polysyndeton?

A type of anaphora

Excessive commas in a sentence

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?

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“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.”)

Past tense

Present progressive tense

Present tense

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

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Repetition

Alliteration
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Literary critics

Abolitionists

Botanists

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

The Gothic Era

The Enlightenment 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:

Alliteration

Simile

Anaphora

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

Her life experiences

Contemporary literature

Fairytale books

Greek mythology
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Optimistic

Mournful

Nostalgic

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

The Black slaves

The brown-faced child

Her son

A new-born child
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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