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Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Read How It Feels to Be Colored Me and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. How old is Hurston when she discovers she is “colored”?

twenty-one

thirteen

seventeen

seven

2. Where is Hurston sent away to school?

Tampa

Miami

Eatonville

Jacksonville

3. When is Hurston most aware of her race?

when she has to sit on the back of a bus

when she fills out forms that ask her to check off her race

when she reads about the history of slavery

when she is in the midst of white people

4. Hurston is aware of racial difference when she and a white friend go

to a country club.

south of the Mason-Dixon line.

to a hotel.

to a jazz club,

5. When Hurston is discriminated against she feels

angry.

astonished.

victimized.

shame.