Text - How it feels to be colored me
This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.
Part A: How does Hurston use logical reasoning to develop the claim of her being the first "welcome-to-our-state" Floridian?
1. by deductive reasoning when starting with a premise of not having an Indian Chief on her maternal side.
2. by abductive reasoning when starting with a pattern of ways that she interacted with the tourist in Eatonville.
3. by inductive reasoning when starting with an observation then concluding with a premise of the residents in her town
4. by generalizations when starting with a factual description of the setting then making a connection to the interaction between the characters in the text
Question 2
Part B: Which two sentences from the text best support the answer to Part A?
1. I would probably "go a piece of the way with them" (Paragraph 3)
2. The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town, but it was a gallery seat for me." (Paragraph 3)
3. I’d wave at them and when they returned my salute. I would say something like this: "Howdy-do-well-1-thank-you-where-you-goin? (Paragraph 3)
4. The more venturesome would come out on the porch to watch them go past and got just as much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the
village" (Paragraph 2)
5. 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" (Paragraph 1)