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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What happened to Pop when he took a knife to high school once?
(a) He was sent to juvenile hall.
(b) He was sent to jail.
(c) He was fined.
(d) He was expelled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. When was Sellers placed on academic probation in college?
(a) His second year.
(b) His first semester.
(c) His third year, in the first semester.
(d) The last semester of his senior year.

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

14. What is one of the most important days of Sellers's life even though it happened before his birth?
(a) March 19, 1965.
(b) July 24, 1950.
(c) February 8, 1968.
(d) December 15, 1955.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what stage of college was Sellers when the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks occured?

2. Who interviewed Sellers in 2014 for a Black Leadership video collection?

3. Where was Pop airlifted after he got shot?

4. What was Pop's neighborhood called?

5. Which famous civil rights leader is Sellers pictured with as a baby?

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