How it Feels to be Colored Me

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

• Miami 
• Orlando
• Jacksonville
• Tampa

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

• 5 years
• 7 years
• 13 years
• 17 years

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

• atop the gatepost
• the horse
• the automobile
• the water barrel

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

• Miss Hurston of the Atlantic Coast
• A Florida author
• An African American leader
• A little colored girl

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

• I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. 
• I am searching for treasure and digging for gold. 
• I am the leader of the pack. 
• I am the queen of the hill. 

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

• That dark night of the soul has been transformed by a glorious sunrise. 
• Sobbing ghosts in manacles and chains haunt me wherever I go. 
• The operation was successful, and the patient is doing well. 
• One chapter has closed; another has begun. 

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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
• race riots in major American cities in the 1920s 
• the hatred felt by white people 
• the street noise of New York City 

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

• He weeps out of sorrow and joy. 
• He continues to talk about his stock options, oblivious to the music. 
• He says, "Good music they have here." 
• He storms out of the club. 

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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 
• an invisible woman, unnoticed by fans and reporters 
• a much more talented actress 
• the cosmic Zora . . . the eternal feminine with its string of beads 

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

• a brown bag of miscellany 
• the ringmaster at a circus 
• a beacon light of truth. 
• the Great Stuffer of Bags 

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