Zora Neale Hurston, excerpt "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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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 answers

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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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Plunges, constrict, splits, rears, attacks, rendering, clawing, breakthrough - all these words show

• the transformative power of jazz music
• Zora's feelings when she was in Harlem
• what Zora felt when she went to Jaksonville

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When in the Jazz club, Zora describes her experience

• as making her very conscious of the differences between her and her white friend.
• as the music pulls her powerfully into a colorful, raw, primitive jungle.
• as one that is painful to remember

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"But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall."  Miscellany can be defined as:

• a collection of various items
• something without importance
• something that can be mixed 

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Zora points out that the random and diverse nature of the content of our characters is something that makes us alike.  This comment is in reference to:

• the primal jungle experience
• the jazz music
• the bags

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What does the author mean by her self-description in paragraph 5, “I became a fast brown—warranted not to rub nor run”?

• In this context, the word fast means “worn down”

• In this context, the word fast means “not accepting within.”

• In this context, the word fast means “unattached”

• In this context, the word fast means “attached firmly.”

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