How It Feels to Be Colored Me (in progress)

What is most likely the author’s reason for referring to her young self as “Zora of Orange County” and “Zora of Eatonville’?

• To delineate the years of her life before she left Eatonville, when she had a simpler understanding of racial matters

• It is meant ironically, as Zora was actually born in Jacksonville.

• To show that Zora was close-minded as a child.

• It is meant affectionately, as they were her nicknames as a child.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

How mainly does Hurston’s description of dancing to jazz add to the development of the essay’s themes?

• By showing how certain situations make Hurston feel more colored than others

• By establishing her very “white” disinterest in the physicality of jazz

• By revealing how different she is than white people and other black people

• By presenting jazz as the “Jacksonville of music”

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of these inferences about the narrator’s relationship with other races is best supported by the essay?

• She loved her culture as a child, but came to loathe it.

• She is suspicious of other races.

• She wants desperately to be a part of the “mainstream.”

• She is not scared of or enthralled by white people in power.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1