Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?

James Mitchell Langston Hughes

John Michael Langston Hughes

John Mercedes Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes
2 Who is the titular character in “Aunt Sue’s Stories” allegedly based on?

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

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

Zora Neale Hurston

W.E.B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

James Baldwin
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?

The Weary Blues

Mother to Son

Fine Clothes of the Jew

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

1930

1943

1925

1921
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?

"Harlem"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"I, Too"

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

Aunt Sue has a head full of stories.

Singing sorrow songs on the banks of a mighty river

Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.

The dark-faced child is quiet
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 stone-faced

Dark-faced and pale-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-faced

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

Spring

Winter

Fall

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

At the dinner table

On the front porch

In bed

In the field
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

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

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

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Black slaves”
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”?

Metaphor

Repetition

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …

Pianists

Abolitionists

Botanists

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

The Baroque Period

The Harlem Renaissance

The Gothic Era

The Enlightenment 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

Simile

Alliteration

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

Fairytale books

Greek mythology

Contemporary literature

Her life experiences
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Mournful

Optimistic

Nostalgic

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

The Black slaves

A new-born child

The brown-faced child

Her son
25 How does the poem end?

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

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

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