How It Feels to Be Colored Me Quizzes

How It Feels to Be Colored Me Quiz 1

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

Novel

Essay

Prose poem
3 In what year was "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" first published?
2018

1928

2001

1999
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?
Hawaii

New York

Florida

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

An unnamed third-person narrator

Richard Wright

An unnamed first-person narrator
7 What does Hurston declare in the opening line of the essay?
I have no race

I am colored

I am Black

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

Elliottsville

Spitalfields

Jacksonville
9 What is significant about the town Hurston grew up in?
Only a dozen people live in the town

The population is exactly half white, half Black

The population is exclusively African American

It was once a movie set that people now live in
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?
Omnibuses

Bicycles

Automobiles

Horses
12 Where do "more venturesome" Black people in Hurston's town watch the passing white people from?
The living room

The porch

The road

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

Her gatepost

Her bedroom

From under her mother's large skirt
14 How old is Hurston when she is sent to boarding school?
18

13

15

11
15 What "sea change" happens to Hurston in Jacksonville?
She learns that her mother died and her father tried to hide it

She becomes "a little colored girl"

She becomes "an oyster knife"

She becomes "a brown specter"
16 As Hurston writes in the essay, which answer fills in the blank? "But I am not _____ colored."
actually

tragically

terrifically

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 doesn't want to identify as a victim

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

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"?
Taciturnity

Stubbornness

Ambitiousness

Foolhardiness
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?
400

60

100

10
21 According to Hurston, what is the "price [she] paid for civilization"?
The noise of New York City

Slavery

The Reconstruction

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

Bloomsbury Group

Neo-Realism

Harlem Renaissance
23 Complete the sentence: "The position of my white neighbor is ______."
no piece of cake

much less difficult

much more difficult

no swim at the beach
24 According to Hurston, does she "always feel colored"?
No

Yes

She never feels colored

Only when she wears makeup
25 Where is one of the places Hurston mentions noticing her race?
Soho boutiques

Barnard College

Midtown Manhattan

Ellis Island

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

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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Answered by jill d #170087 on 9/16/2020 10:14 PM

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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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