How It Feels To Be Colored Me

Zora Neale Hurston was born in

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

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

• comedy
• irony
• exageration
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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

• self-confident

• curious

• fearless

• all of the answers

"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

When Hurston uses the description "of brown bags of miscellany propped against the wall.." she is referring to

• the primal jungle experience she had in the Jazz Club

• the jazz music is universal

• that all people have much in common

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

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

• the automobile
• the water barrel
• the gatepost
•  her brother's shoulders

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

• I am guided by the star--and by a still small voice.
• I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
• I am searching for treasure and digging for gold.
•  I am the queen of the hill.

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?

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

The allusion made to God is "Great Stuffer of Bags"

• True
• False