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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Sellers doing the night Pop got shot?
(a) Commentating on CNN.
(b) In college at Chapel Hill.
(c) Watching the NCAA championship in Columbia.
(d) Getting married.

3. At what stage of college was Sellers when the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks occured?
(a) His freshman year.
(b) His senior year.
(c) His junior year.
(d) He was not yet in college.

4. What popular beverage used to be bottled in Sellers's hometown?
(a) Frank's Lemonate.
(b) Coca-Cola.
(c) Ginger Ale.
(d) Orangeade.

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

6. How did Sellers's parents first try to make a living in the town they moved to in the 1990s?
(a) Running the motel next door to where they lived.
(b) Restaurant business.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Farming.

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

8. What sport did Sellers love to play as a child and teenager?
(a) Polo.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Lacrosse.
(d) Soccer.

9. What did Sellers say he looked like when he started college?
(a) A Q-tip.
(b) A bean pole.
(c) A car.
(d) A pipe cleaner.

10. What was one of Sellers's jobs as an intern at the congressperson's office while in college?
(a) Drafting speeches.
(b) Delivering South Carolina peaches to other congresspeople.
(c) Delivering letters to the White House.
(d) Delivering sandwiches to other congresspeople.

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

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

13. What do many people in Denmark use to get around, even older adults?
(a) Lawn mowers.
(b) Skateboards.
(c) Bicycles.
(d) Scooters.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What substance had the state government been adding to the water in Denmark for years?

2. Where did Sellers intern after his freshman year at college?

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

4. Where did Sellers attend College?

5. What was Pop's neighborhood called?

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