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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What city is Sellers from?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) New York.
(c) Denmark.
(d) New Orleans.

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

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

9. What is the game of put-downs called?
(a) The Jive.
(b) The Driving.
(c) The Dozens.
(d) The One Hundred.

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. What did people in Sellers's town call people who went to church all dressed up once per year?
(a) Pagans.
(b) Summer churchies.
(c) Christmas Christians.
(d) Easter families.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What organization did Sellers's father drop out of college to join?

5. Who was Sellers's good friend as a child who became part of his extended family?

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