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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 Emmett Till's mother publish his funeral pictures?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) Ebony Magazine.
(c) Jet Magazine.
(d) Newsweek Magazine.

2. What substance had the state government been adding to the water in Denmark for years?
(a) Lead.
(b) Beano.
(c) Chlorinated Sulfate.
(d) HaloSan.

3. What do people in Sellers' hometown say when asking about family connections?
(a) Who are your family?
(b) What's your kinship?
(c) Who's your people?
(d) What's your name?

4. What was Pop's neighborhood called?
(a) The Track.
(b) The Hookz.
(c) The Red.
(d) The Black Forest.

5. When was Cleveland Sellers pardoned?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1975.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What organization did Sellers's father drop out of college to join?

3. Where was the so-called "Black Wall Street" in the early 1900s in America?

4. Who is Sellers's father?

5. What is one thing that Sellers writes some families in the rural South pass down to their children?

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