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WorksheetsZora Neale Hurston, excerpt "How It Feels to be Colored Me"
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 13mins
"...I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief." This sentence is an example of
irony
metaphor
comedy
simile
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.
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
In paragraph 7, Hurston makes a repetition of the word or words:
slave, slavery
struggle
nothing
American
Zora says slavery is in the past, and now she has a chance for victory, "the world to be won and nothing to be lost." This answer can be considered ________ . (paragraph
a long simile
an extended metaphor
a summary
a personification
"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
Plunges, constrict, splits, rears, attacks, rendering, clawing, breakthrough... - all these words show
the transformative power of the Jazz music
Zora's feelings when she was in Harlem
what Zora felt when she went to Jaksonville
It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down into business. Circumlocutions means:
a false expression
going straight to the point
roundabout expressions that serve to avoid the main point
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
"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
"No, I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." this sentences can be considered a
simile
metaphor
personification
Hurston expresses pride in herself when she says " How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company! It's beyond me."
true
false
" I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul." This line expresses
Hurston pride and confidence in being African American
Hurston doubts about herself in a white world
Hurston careless thought about racism
