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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was the so-called "Black Wall Street" in the early 1900s in America?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New York.
(d) Tulsa.

3. How did some people describe Sellers's mother?
(a) Bougie.
(b) Warm.
(c) High-handed.
(d) Stand-offish.

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

5. What was Sellers doing the night Pop got shot?
(a) In college at Chapel Hill.
(b) Commentating on CNN.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Watching the NCAA championship in Columbia.

6. What does Sellers write that Denmark is a part of in the very beginning of Part II?
(a) The hidden path.
(b) The barrier islands.
(c) The Red Wall.
(d) The forgotten South.

7. Who interviewed Sellers in 2014 for a Black Leadership video collection?
(a) Marlon Jackson.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) Katherine Kleaver.
(d) Julian Bond.

8. What do many people in Denmark use to get around, even older adults?
(a) Lawn mowers.
(b) Bicycles.
(c) Scooters.
(d) Skateboards.

9. Who asked Sellers to give the keynote speech at the fiftieth anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre?
(a) Bill Hine.
(b) Michael Marlon.
(c) Jesse Jackson.
(d) Julian Bond.

10. What did people in Sellers's town call people who went to church all dressed up once per year?
(a) Pagans.
(b) Easter families.
(c) Summer churchies.
(d) Christmas Christians.

11. What was one of Sellers's jobs as an intern at the congressperson's office while in college?
(a) Delivering sandwiches to other congresspeople.
(b) Drafting speeches.
(c) Delivering letters to the White House.
(d) Delivering South Carolina peaches to other congresspeople.

12. When did Pop get shot?
(a) 2019.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2010.

13. Who was Sellers's college roomate?
(a) Marshall Mathers.
(b) Jerome Selling.
(c) Jarrod Loadholt.
(d) Robert James.

14. Where is Sellers's mother originally from?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Chicago.
(d) San Francisco.

15. What was Pop upset about in Part II to do with Sellers's life?
(a) Pop was not invited to Thanksgiving dinner.
(b) Pop was not invited to be in Sellers's wedding.
(c) Pop was not invited to manage Sellers's campaign.
(d) Pop was not invited to Sellers's children's christening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sellers's grandmother die from?

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

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

4. How old was Sellers when he started college?

5. Where did Emmett Till's mother publish his funeral pictures?

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