English 2070 - American Literature from the Late 19th Century to the Present » Spring 2022 » Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me Quiz

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Question #1
How does Hurston jokingly say she is different from other blacks in America?
A.   She thinks her childhood was a magical experience.
B.   She does not have a Native American grandfather.
C.   She doesn’t see a racial divide in the United States.
D.   She believes that slavery opened opportunities for her.
Question #2
Where did Hurston grow up?
A.   Orlando
B.   Eatonville
C.   New York City
D.   Chicago
Question #3
To whom would Hurston offer a “Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin” when she was a young girl in Eatonville?
A.   Northern white tourists bound for Orlando
B.   her neighbors when they stopped by
C.   Southern white landlords collecting rent
D.   black residents of Eatonville
Question #4
When did Hurston first learn that she was colored?
A.   when her mother explained issues of race to her
B.   when she entered a jazz club with a white man
C.   when she attended college in the New York
D.   when she moved to Jacksonville to attend school
Question #5
How does Hurston feel about being colored?
A.   consumed with the injustices of racial discrimination
B.   determined to challenge readers’ racial stereotypes
C.   puzzled about how blacks will overcome racism
D.   nonchalant and indifferent because she has other priorities
Question #6
When does Hurston feel most colored?
A.   when she wakes up in the morning
B.   when someone is prejudiced against her
C.   when she is contrasted with white people
D.   when she returns home to Eatonville
Question #7
What is Hurston describing when she writes, “I follow those heathen—follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head. I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something—give pain, give death to what, I do not know” (NAAL9D p.535).
A.   fighting a battle in the Civil War
B.   listening to jazz music in a club
C.   listening to her elders tell stories
D.   facing down racial discrimination
Question #8
When does Hurston feel it’s an advantage to be colored?
A.   when she listens to jazz
B.   when she sits down to write
C.   when she is in Harlem
D.   when people ask for her autograph
Question #9
How does Hurston feel about being considered both American and colored?
A.   She only feels American when she travels to Europe.
B.   She sees the two descriptions as completely dissimilar.
C.   She finds no difference between the two depictions.
D.   She thinks blacks cannot ever feel completely American.
Question #10
How does Hurston feel when she experiences racial discrimination?
A.   amused
B.   furious
C.   surprised
D.   embarrassed

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