My Vanishing Country Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Bakari Sellers
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

My Vanishing Country Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Bakari Sellers
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Part II - Part III).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which famous civil rights leader is Sellers pictured with as a baby?
(a) Nedham Raines.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) Marshall Windham.
(d) Luther Jackson.

3. What does Sellers say many people have done if they are from rural South Carolina?
(a) Eaten catfish.
(b) Fished in a lake.
(c) Installed an air conditioner.
(d) Ridden down a dirt road to get home.

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

5. What was the first deadly shootout to occur on a U.S. college campus involving police?
(a) The Howard Masacre.
(b) The Orangeburg Massacre.
(c) Southern Carolina State.
(d) Kent State.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped run Sellers's campaings for elected office from his college days?

2. At what stage of college was Sellers when the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks occured?

3. How did Sellers's parents first try to make a living in the town they moved to in the 1990s?

4. What hospital closed its doors in 2012 due to lack of funds and petty politics, according to Sellers?

5. What do people in Sellers' hometown say when asking about family connections?

(see the answer key)

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