How It Feels to be Colored Me, Zora Neale Hurston

According to Hurston, white people would pass through Eatonville on their way to or from what large Florida city?

• Miami
• Orlando
• Tampa
• Jacksonville

Hurston reports that she "lived in the little town of Eatonville, Florida" until she was how old?

• 5 yrs old
• 13 yrs old
• 7 yrs old
• 10 yrs old

Hurston recalls that when greeting travelers as a child her "favorite place" to perch was atop _________

• a horse
• the water barrel
• her brother's shoulders
• the gatepost

Hurston interprets her move from Eatonville to Jacksonville as a personal transformation: from "Zora of Orange County" to _______________

• Miss Hurston of the Atlantic Coast
  
  
  
  
• Zora Neale of Duval County
• a Florida author
• a little colored girl

Hurston employs a metaphor to demonstrate that she does not accept the self-pitying role of a victim. What is that metaphor?

• "Queen of the Hill"
• "too busy sharpening my oyster knife"
• "leader of the pack"
• "searching for treasure and digging for gold"

Hurston employs another metaphor to evaluate the effects of slavery ("sixty years in the past") on her life. What is that metaphor?

• The operation was successful, and the patient is doing well.
• That dark night of the soul has been transformed by a glorious sunrise.
• That dark road has led to a bright highway.
  
  
• One chapter has closed; another has begun.

When Hurston recalls sitting in The New World Cabaret, she introduces the metaphor of a wild animal, which "rears on its hind legs and attacks the tonal veil with primitive fury, rending it, clawing it until it breaks through to the jungle beyond." What is she describing with this metaphor?

• a jazz orchestra
  
  
• the hatred felt by black people
• the street noise of New York City
• the hatred felt by white people
  
  

According to Hurston, how does her white male companion respond to the music that has affected her so deeply?

• "Music from hell," he says
• He storms out of the club.
• He weeps out of sorrow and joy.
  
  
• He says, "Good music they have here."
  
  

Toward the end of the essay, Hurston refers to Peggy Hopkins Joyce, an American actress known in the 1920s for her lavish lifestyle and scandalous affairs. In comparison to Joyce, Hurston says that she herself is ____

•  just a poor colored woman
• the cosmic Zora . . . the eternal feminine with its string of beads
• an invisible woman, unnoticed by fans and reporters
• far more respectable

In the final paragraph of the essay, Hurston compares herself to _______________

• the Great Stuffer of Bags
• the ringmaster at a circus
• an actor in a play
• a brown bag of miscellany