"How Does It Feel to Be Colored Me" Quiz

What mainly can the reader infer about the state of race relations during Zora’s time in Florida (Paragraph 5)?

• A. Eatonville was the only non-racist town in Florida.

• B. In the state’s cities, people of color were treated in very specific ways.

• C. Jacksonville was the only non-racist town in Florida.

• D. In Eatonville, colored people were treated badly.

 What is most likely the author’s reason for referring to her young self as “Zora of Orange County” and “Zora of Eatonville’?

• A. To show that Zora was close-minded as a child.

• B. It is meant ironically, as Zora was actually born in Jacksonville.

• C. To delineate the years of her life before she left Eatonville, when she had a simpler understanding of racial matters.

• D. It is meant affectionately, as they were her nicknames as a child.

How mainly does Hurston’s description of dancing to jazz add to the development of the essay’s themes?

• A. By showing how certain situations make Hurston feel more colored than others

• B. By establishing her very “white” disinterest in the physicality of jazz

• C. By revealing how different she is than white people and other black people

• D. By presenting jazz as the “Jacksonville of music”

What does the following passage from the text mainly reveal about the narrator (Paragraph 8)?

• A. She believes in paranormal activity.

• B. She thinks white people’s problems are overblown.

• C. She believes white people are haunted by the past.

• D. She enjoys playing parlor games.

Which of these inferences about the narrator’s relationship with other races is best supported by the essay?

• A. She is suspicious of other races.

• B. She wants desperately to be a part of the “mainstream.”

• C. She loved her culture as a child, but came to loathe it.

• D. She is not scared of or enthralled by white people in power.

Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• A. “I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”

• B. “Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself.”

• C. “The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando.”

• D. “The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him.”

What is most closely a theme of “How It Feels to be Colored Me”?

• A. American racism comes in many different forms.

• B. To some degree, we are all wiser when we are children.

• C. White people and black people simply cannot communicate.

• 1. D. Race may inform identity, but it does not solely define who you are.

Which sentence from the essay best supports the correct answer to Question 7?

• A. “At certain times I have no race, I am me.”

• B. “I’d wave at them and when they returned my salute, I would say something like this: ‘Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin’?’”

• C. “My country, right or wrong.”

• 1. D. “For instance, when I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes.”

Which meaning of veneer most closely matches its meaning in the following passage (Paragraph 11)?

• A. noun | any of the thin layers bonded together to form plywood

• B. noun | a plastic or porcelain coating bonded to the surface of an imperfect tooth

• C. noun | a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, display, or effect

• 1. D. noun | a protective or ornamental facing for brick or stone

What comes FIRST?

• Zora discovers she is a "little colored girl."

• Zora waves at people passing through Eatonville.

• Hurston talks about dancing to jazz music.

• Hurston describes the rise of the "cosmic Zora."