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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Pop think will haunt him for life?
(a) His mother's death.
(b) His car accident.
(c) His prison record.
(d) His drug addiction.

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

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

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

6. Whose killing inspired Cleveland Sellers to do more in the civil rights movement?
(a) Medgar Evers'.
(b) Rosa Park's.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
(d) Emmett Till's.

7. What is one of the most important days of Sellers's life even though it happened before his birth?
(a) March 19, 1965.
(b) July 24, 1950.
(c) February 8, 1968.
(d) December 15, 1955.

8. Who helped run Sellers's campaings for elected office from his college days?
(a) James.
(b) Brandon.
(c) Jarrod.
(d) Nathan.

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

10. Who was one of Sellers's favorite teachers in high school?
(a) Mr. Molnar.
(b) Mrs. Smith.
(c) Mr. Bass.
(d) Miss Miller.

11. What happened to Pop when he took a knife to high school once?
(a) He was fined.
(b) He was sent to jail.
(c) He was expelled.
(d) He was sent to juvenile hall.

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

13. When was the fiftieth anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2019.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2015.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what is Sellers's city named after?

2. What job did Sellers briefly try as a teenager?

3. What did the boys from DC mostly wear at Sellers's college?

4. What does Sellers say many people have done if they are from rural South Carolina?

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

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