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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was Sellers's good friend as a child who became part of his extended family?
(a) Pop.
(b) Gerald.
(c) Robert.
(d) Norlon.

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

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

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

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

7. How much older than Sellers is his brother Lumumba?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 10 years.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What did Pop turn his attention to after his father's death?
(a) Football and Soccer.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Computers.
(d) History.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sellers say he looked like when he started college?

2. What sport did Sellers love to play as a child and teenager?

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

4. How many Black men were killed at the Orangeburg Massacre?

5. When was Cleveland Sellers pardoned?

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