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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 organization was Sellers's grandmother a board member of?
(a) Baptist Christian Council.
(b) SNCC.
(c) NAACP.
(d) NOW.

2. What do parents often ask Sellers?
(a) How he got interested in politics.
(b) How he was able to become governor.
(c) How he was able to do things at such a young age.
(d) How he was able to move away from Denmark.

3. How many people were injured at the Orangeburg Massacre?
(a) 52.
(b) 28.
(c) 40.
(d) 100.

4. Where did Sellers live before moving to the town he thinks of as his hometown?
(a) Greensboro, North Carolina.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

5. Where did Sellers intern after his freshman year at college?
(a) Congressman Jim Clyburn's office.
(b) Congresswoman Kay Bass's office.
(c) Congressman Jerry Nadler's office.
(d) Congressman Cleve Singer's office.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which aunt of Sellers's always dressed to the nines?

2. What did John Lewis do during his congressional race with Julian Bond that Sellers think may have won Lewis the election?

3. When was Cleveland Sellers pardoned?

4. How did Pop's father die?

5. What did people in Sellers's town call people who went to church all dressed up once per year?

(see the answer key)

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