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 Aunt Mary Leary Hughes

Hughes’s mother

Hughes’s Aunt Sue

Hughes’s grandmother Mary Leary Hughes
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?
Fine Clothes of the Jew

Mother to Son

The Weary Blues

I, Too
5 When was “Aunt Sue’s Stories” published?
1925

1943

1921

1930
6 What was Langston Hughes’s first published poem?
"Harlem"

"I, Too"

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

"Aunt Sue’s Stories"
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

Death

Heritage

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

gently

calmly

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

Dark-faced and brown-faced

Brown-faced and solemn-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?
On the front porch

At the dinner table

In the field

In bed
13 What does the river represent in Hughes’s work?
The flow of time and constant change

Prosperity and wealth

Unseen forces that humans cannot control

The flow of time and the passing down of African American heritage
14 What is polysyndeton?
Excessive commas in a sentence

A flow of consciousness that is not interrupted by punctuation

A type of anaphora

Multiple types of syntaxes in a text
15 What line marks a shift in tone in the poem?
“Summer nights on the front porch”

“In the dark shadows that cross and recross”

“Black slaves”

“Walking in the dewy night,”
16 What tense if the last line of the poem in? (“Listening to Aunt Sue’s stories.”)
Past tense

Present perfect tense

Present tense

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

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Alliteration
18 Langston Hughes is descended from …
Pianists

Literary critics

Botanists

Abolitionists
19 What arts and cultural movement was Hughes associated with?
The Enlightenment Era

The Baroque Period

The Gothic Era

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

Free verse

Villanelle

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

Anaphora

Oxymoron

Simile
22 Where do Aunt Sue’s stories come from?
Contemporary literature

Greek mythology

Her life experiences

Fairytale books
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Mournful

Optimistic

Cynical

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?
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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