5) Which of these inferences about the narrator’s relationship with other races are the best supported by the essay?
A. She is suspicious of other races.
B. She wants desperately to be a part of the “mainstream”.
C. She loved her culture as a child, but came to loathe it.
D. She is not scared of or enthralled by white people in power.
6) which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to question 5?
A. “ I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am only negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
B. “among the thousands of white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself.”
C. “The only white person 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.”
7) What is most closely a theme of “How It Feels to be Colored Me”?
A. American racism comes in many different forms
B. To some degree, we are all wiser when we are children
C. White people and Black people simply cannot communicate
D. Race may inform identity, but it is not solely define who you are
8) What song is from the inside by supports the correct answer to question 7?
A. “At certain times I have no race, I am me.”
B. “I would wave at them and when they returned my salute, I would say something like this; ‘Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin’?”
C. “My country, right or wrong.”
D. “For instant, when I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes.”