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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Pop airlifted after he got shot?
(a) Richland in Columbia.
(b) St. Lucy's Hospital.
(c) State Hospital in Bowling Green.
(d) Southern State Hospital.

2. 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?

3. How old was Sellers when he started college?
(a) 16.
(b) 20.
(c) 18.
(d) 13.

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

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

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

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

8. Who was Sellers's favorite basketball team as a child?
(a) UConn.
(b) Duke.
(c) Florida State.
(d) NYU.

9. What hospital closed its doors in 2012 due to lack of funds and petty politics, according to Sellers?
(a) Bamburg Hospital.
(b) St. Lucy's Hospital.
(c) Barlington Hospital.
(d) Cook's Hospital.

10. What did Sellers's grandmother die from?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Breast cancer.

11. How many people were injured at the Orangeburg Massacre?
(a) 100.
(b) 52.
(c) 40.
(d) 28.

12. What does Sellers say there was before there were trolls?
(a) Reeling.
(b) Jiving.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Driving.

13. Where did Sellers's father receive his graduate degree?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Yale.
(d) Stanford.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Pop when he took a knife to high school once?

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

3. When did Pop get shot?

4. What was Pop's neighborhood called?

5. What does Pop think will haunt him for life?

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