View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What Church did Sellers's family join in 1990?
(a) St. Philips.
(b) Mother Theresa's.
(c) St. Sarah's.
(d) St. Emanuel.

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

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

7. What state is Sellers from?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Florida.

8. Which well-known actor went to the same college Sellers attended?
(a) Samuel L. Jackson.
(b) Laurence Fishburn.
(c) Ricky Lee.
(d) Denzel Washington.

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

10. Who or what is Sellers's city named after?
(a) B.A. Denmark.
(b) A French count.
(c) A city in Holland.
(d) Francis Atlanta.

11. Who had attended Morehouse but failed out and returned back to Sellers's hometown?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Ricky.
(c) James.
(d) Lenny.

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

13. Who is Sellers's father?
(a) Robert Sellers.
(b) Cleveland Sellers.
(c) James Sellers.
(d) Marlon Sellers.

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

15. How did Sellers's parents first try to make a living in the town they moved to in the 1990s?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Farming.
(c) Restaurant business.
(d) Running the motel next door to where they lived.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What popular beverage used to be bottled in Sellers's hometown?

3. Before 9/11, who were the only terrorists Sellers said he had ever heard about?

4. What does Sellers write that Denmark is a part of in the very beginning of Part II?

5. What kinds of fish did Sellers use to catch with his siblings?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 379 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample