How It Feels to Be Colored Me Quizzes

How It Feels to Be Colored Me Quiz 1

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1 Who wrote "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"?

Toni Morrison

Jean Toomer

Zora Neale Hurston

Richard Wright
2 What form does "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" take?

Prose poem

Novel

Short story

Essay
3 In what year was "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" first published?

1999

2018

1928

2001
4 In what country is "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" set?

United States

Haiti

Cuba

Jamaica
5 In what state was Hurston raised?

Florida

New York

Hawaii

Maryland
6 Who is the narrator of "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"?

Zora Neale Hurston

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator

Richard Wright
7 What does Hurston declare in the opening line of the essay?

I am colored

I have no race

I am Black

I do not see race
8 What is the name of the town Hurston grew up in?

Jacksonville

Elliottsville

Spitalfields

Eatonville
9 What is significant about the town Hurston grew up in?

It was once a movie set that people now live in

The population is exactly half white, half Black

Only a dozen people live in the town

The population is exclusively African American
10 What do the white Southerns use for transportation when going through Eatonville?

Cars

Buses

Horses

Pickup trucks
11 What do the white Northern tourists use for transportation when going through Eatonville?

Bicycles

Horses

Automobiles

Omnibuses
12 Where do "more venturesome" Black people in Hurston's town watch the passing white people from?

The front garden

The road

The living room

The porch
13 Where does Hurston, as a child, like to watch the white tourists from?

Her bedroom

From under her mother's large skirt

Her gatepost

Her porch
14 How old is Hurston when she is sent to boarding school?

11

13

18

15
15 What "sea change" happens to Hurston in Jacksonville?

She becomes "an oyster knife"

She becomes "a brown specter"

She becomes "a little colored girl"

She learns that her mother died and her father tried to hide it
16 As Hurston writes in the essay, which answer fills in the blank? "But I am not _____ colored."

inevitably

actually

terrifically

tragically
17 Why does Hurston not want to "belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood"?

She is being ironic; she actually does want to identify as a victim

She thinks new immigrants to the US have a harder life than her

She doesn't want to identify as a victim

She believes slavery never happened
18 Which answer best encapsulates the sentiment Hurston tries to get across with the metaphor "I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife"?

Stubbornness

Ambitiousness

Foolhardiness

Taciturnity
19 What do people often remind Hurston that her grandparents were?

Land owners

White

Slaves

Native American
20 How many years "in the past" is slavery from the time Hurston is writing?

10

100

400

60
21 According to Hurston, what is the "price [she] paid for civilization"?

Slavery

The Reconstruction

The noise of New York City

Being discriminated against
22 What cultural era is Hurston most associated with?

Neo-Realism

Harlem Renaissance

Bloomsbury Group

Postmodernism
23 Complete the sentence: "The position of my white neighbor is ______."

much less difficult

no swim at the beach

much more difficult

no piece of cake
24 According to Hurston, does she "always feel colored"?

Only when she wears makeup

Yes

She never feels colored

No
25 Where is one of the places Hurston mentions noticing her race?

Ellis Island

Soho boutiques

Barnard College

Midtown Manhattan

Identify the authors use of an idiom in paragraph 5. Analyze the authors use of figurative language

Sorry, you will need to quote the paragraph in question for me.

Asked by Xaniah M #1290114

Answered by Aslan on 2/16/2023 5:11 AM

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How is life in Jacksonville different for Zora?

Hurston moved to Jacksonville by riverboat to attend school there. In Jacksonville is where she first started hearing that she was "a little colored girl." She took this as an infringement on her individual identity, but she was too busy having...

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How it feels to be colors

I'm not sure what your question is here. You can check out some metaphors below if that is what you are looking for.

https://www.gradesaver.com/how-it-feels-to-be-colored-me/study-guide/metaphors-and-similes

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Answered by Aslan on 12/31/2022 7:05 AM

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