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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Part IX - Afterword).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first thing Sellers did when he started his campaign for the state legislature in 2005?
(a) Print business cards.
(b) Make campaign posters.
(c) Start raising money.
(d) Make a list of people he needed to meet.

2. What is one thing that Sellers writes some families in the rural South pass down to their children?
(a) Money.
(b) Resilience.
(c) Education.
(d) Poverty.

3. Which writer once described Black women as the mules of the world?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

4. What is Sellers's usual reaction to the racist messages he regularly receives on social media?
(a) He responds to them.
(b) He reports them to the social media platforms.
(c) He prays for the senders.
(d) He ignores them.

5. What upset Malcolm Graham about some of the other families of victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting?
(a) Other family members of victims chose to forgive the shooter, but Graham was very angry and could not do the same.
(b) Some family members moved quickly to hire lawyers.
(c) Some family members wanted to talk to the press more than he did.
(d) Some family members were not allowed into the hospitals where their loved ones were being treated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following colleges is in Sellers's hometown?

2. What did Sellers ask his opponent in 2014 to do during an interview on MSNBC?

3. Which symbol at the South Carolina State Capitol were there calls to remove in the aftermath of the 2015 Charleston church shooting?

4. Which friend and Reverend was killed in the Charleston church shooting in 2015?

5. Who was one of Sellers's favorite teachers in high school?

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