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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following colleges is in Sellers's hometown?
(a) New York University.
(b) Amulet University.
(c) Atlanta University.
(d) Vorhees College.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What turned Sellers's friend Pop off of computers?
(a) They were always too expensive.
(b) He never learned to use one because he was afraid of them.
(c) His father had bought him one just before he died tragically.
(d) He stole one, and the crime sent him to jail.

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

12. What kinds of fish did Sellers use to catch with his siblings?
(a) Crappies.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Bass.
(d) Salmon.

13. Who helped run Sellers's campaings for elected office from his college days?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Brandon.
(c) Jarrod.
(d) James.

14. What is one thing that Sellers writes some families in the rural South pass down to their children?
(a) Education.
(b) Money.
(c) Resilience.
(d) Poverty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Pop get his GED?

2. How did some people describe Sellers's mother?

3. What was the first deadly shootout to occur on a U.S. college campus involving police?

4. What city is Sellers from?

5. Who is Sellers's older sister who became a doctor?

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