Zora Neale Hurston "How It Feels to be Colored Me"

Zora Neale Hurston was born in

• Jacksonville, Florida
• Eatonville, Florida
• Harlem, New York
• New York City

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"I remember the very day I became colored." This sentence is an example of

• comedy
• irony
• exageration
• metaphor

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"...I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief." This sentence is as example of

• irony
• metaphor
• comedy
• simile

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"The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town..." This clause is part of

• a simile
• an extended metaphor
• an irony
• a comical phrase

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Zora Neale Hurston realized she was a "little colored girl" when...

• she was away from her hometown by the age of 13.
• when she went to NYC to study.
• when she had an encounter with the Northeners.

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From her descriptions on how Zora greeted the tourists in Florida, we might infer that she was ...

• self-confident
• curious
• fearless
• all of the answer options listed

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In lines 47 to 59 the repetition is with the word: 

• slave, slavery
• struggle
• nothing
• American

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Zora says slavery is in the past, and now she has a chance for victory, "the world to be won."  This answer can be considered  ________ of lines 47 to 96.

• a long simile
• an extended metaphor
• a summary
• a personification

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"No brown specter pulls out a chair beside me..." The word 'specter' means

• ghost
• waiter
• person
• boss

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"I am colored but I offer nothing in the extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro...".  Extenuating means

• putting off
• lessening the severity of
• increasing the amount

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