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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Sellers briefly try as a teenager?
(a) Doing taxes.
(b) Picking melons.
(c) Selling ice cream.
(d) Mowing lawns.

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

3. Where was the college orientation ceremony for Sellers at his new college?
(a) The Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel.
(b) The Kay Nadler Chapel.
(c) The Reynard Center.
(d) The Parks Chapel.

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

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

6. What organization did Sellers's father drop out of college to join?
(a) NAACP.
(b) RLTB.
(c) SNCC.
(d) NOW.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

12. Which governor seemed to plot against Cleveland Sellers and other protesters in the late 1960s?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) Marlon Freed.
(c) Robert McNair.
(d) Nicholas James.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the most important days of Sellers's life even though it happened before his birth?

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

3. When did Pop get his GED?

4. Who was one of Sellers's favorite teachers in high school?

5. What does Sellers say there was before there were trolls?

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