Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?
James Mitchell Langston Hughes

James Mercer 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 Aunt Sue

Hughes’s Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother
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?
I, Too

The Weary Blues

Fine Clothes of the Jew

Mother to Son
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1925

1943

1930

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"I, Too"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"
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

Infidelity

Heritage

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

gently

softly

quietly
10 How is the child in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” described?
Brown-faced and solemn-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

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

Summer

Winter

Spring
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 the passing down of African American heritage

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

The flow of time and constant change

Prosperity and wealth
14 What is polysyndeton?
A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A type of anaphora

Excessive commas in a sentence
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Black slaves”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

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

Present perfect tense

Past tense

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

Alliteration

Repetition

Onomatopoeia
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Abolitionists

Pianists

Botanists

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

The Enlightenment Era

The Gothic Era

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

Villanelle

Elegy

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

Anaphora

Alliteration

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

Her life experiences

Fairytale books

Contemporary literature
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Optimistic

Cynical

Mournful

Nostalgic
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
A new-born child

Her son

The Black slaves

The brown-faced child
25 How does the poem end?
Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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

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