How It Feels to Be Colored Me Quizzes

How It Feels to Be Colored Me Quiz 1

By Maxwell Olson · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed May 16, 2021

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

Toni Morrison

Zora Neale Hurston

Jean Toomer

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

Short story

Essay

Prose poem

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

2001

1999

1928

2018
4 In what country is "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" set?

Haiti

Jamaica

Cuba

United States
5 In what state was Hurston raised?

Maryland

New York

Hawaii

Florida
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 Black

I am colored

I do not see race

I have no race
8 What is the name of the town Hurston grew up in?

Elliottsville

Jacksonville

Spitalfields

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

The population is exclusively African American

It was once a movie set that people now live in

Only a dozen people live in the town

The population is exactly half white, half Black
10 What do the white Southerns use for transportation when going through Eatonville?

Pickup trucks

Cars

Buses

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

Horses

Automobiles

Omnibuses

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

The front garden

The porch

The road

The living room
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?

15

11

13

18
15 What "sea change" happens to Hurston in Jacksonville?

She becomes "an oyster knife"

She becomes "a little colored girl"

She becomes "a brown specter"

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."

tragically

terrifically

actually

inevitably
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 believes slavery never happened

She doesn't want to identify as a victim

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

Taciturnity

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

Slaves

Land owners

Native American

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

400

100

60

10
21 According to Hurston, what is the "price [she] paid for civilization"?

Slavery

Being discriminated against

The noise of New York City

The Reconstruction
22 What cultural era is Hurston most associated with?

Harlem Renaissance

Bloomsbury Group

Postmodernism

Neo-Realism
23 Complete the sentence: "The position of my white neighbor is ______."

much more difficult

no swim at the beach

no piece of cake

much less difficult
24 According to Hurston, does she "always feel colored"?

Yes

Only when she wears makeup

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

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