Question

In How It Feels to Be Colored Me, the narrator’s view of herself is she is not scared of or enthralled by white culture. Which quote from the text best supports the narrator’s view about herself?
Question 18 options:

a)

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”

b)

“Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself.”

c)

“The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando.”

d)

“The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him.”

Answer 1

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and over swept, but through it all, I remain myself.”

Answer: B

Explanation

Hurston does not allow herself to be intimidated because of her blackness.

However, she takes it as another facet of a wondrous being.

Instead, she pities the white neighbors who fear the black people and assumes that they are racists.

However, at something Hurston feels that her identity is intuitive.

This is especially when she is hanging out with friends; at sometimes she contends discrimination which relieves her burden of racial discrimination while in the company of her friends.