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 Mitchell Langston Hughes

James Mercer 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 Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother
3 Who was the editor of The Crisis when “Aunt Sue’s Stories” was published in it?
Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin

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

The Weary Blues

I, Too

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

1943

1921

1930
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"I, Too"
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”?
Infidelity

Romance

Death

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

calmly

quietly

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

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and stone-faced

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

Summer

Winter

Fall
12 Where does Aunt Sue tell her stories at the beginning of the poem?
At the dinner table

In the field

On the front porch

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

Prosperity and wealth
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?
“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“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.”)
Present progressive tense

Past tense

Present perfect 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 …
Botanists

Literary critics

Pianists

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

The Gothic Era

The Enlightenment Era

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

Villanelle

Free verse

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

Alliteration

Anaphora

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

Fairytale books

Contemporary literature

Greek mythology
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Nostalgic

Cynical

Mournful

Optimistic
24 Who does Aunt Sue hold to her bosom at the beginning of the poem?
The Black slaves

Her son

The brown-faced child

A new-born child
25 How does the poem end?
The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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

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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