Aunt Sue’s Stories Quizzes

Aunt Sue's Stories Quiz

1 What is Langston Hughes’s full name?
John Michael Langston Hughes

John Mercedes 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 Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

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

W.E.B. Du Bois

James Baldwin

Zora Neale Hurston
4 What poetry collection was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” a part of?
The Weary Blues

I, Too

Mother to Son

Fine Clothes of the Jew
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1925

1943

1930

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

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"

"Harlem"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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”?
Death

Romance

Heritage

Infidelity
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

Dark-faced and brown-faced

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

Spring

Summer

Winter
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?
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

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text

Excessive commas in a sentence
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“Summer nights on the front porch”

“Walking in the dewy night,”

“Black slaves”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Present perfect tense

Present progressive tense

Past tense

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

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Metaphor
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Botanists

Abolitionists

Literary critics

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

The Baroque Period

The Harlem Renaissance

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:
Oxymoron

Simile

Alliteration

Anaphora
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?
Optimistic

Nostalgic

Cynical

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

The brown-faced child

A new-born child

Her son
25 How does the poem end?
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

The brown-faced child starts to tell his own story

Aunt Sue tucking the brown-faced child into bed

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