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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first deadly shootout to occur on a U.S. college campus involving police?
(a) The Orangeburg Massacre.
(b) The Howard Masacre.
(c) Southern Carolina State.
(d) Kent State.

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

3. How many Black men were killed at the Orangeburg Massacre?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

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

5. Where was Pop airlifted after he got shot?
(a) Southern State Hospital.
(b) St. Lucy's Hospital.
(c) Richland in Columbia.
(d) State Hospital in Bowling Green.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Church did Sellers's family join in 1990?

3. When did Pop get his GED?

4. When was Sellers placed on academic probation in college?

5. What was Pop's neighborhood called?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Pop have trouble finding well-paid work even after earning his college degree?

2. What was the period between when Cleveland Sellers was arrested in 1968 and when he was pardoned in 1990 like for Cleveland Sellers?

3. How does Sellers describe his family's finances growing up?

4. What tragedy happened in Pop's family when Pop was just a young boy?

5. What is Sellers's alternative history about the naming of Denmark, South Carolina?

6. What was the most significant similarity between Sellers and his roommate Jarrod at Morehouse?

7. How was Sellers's family greeted when they returned to Denmark after years of living in Greensboro?

8. How did the killing of Emmett Till in 1955 affect Cleveland Sellers?

9. At the end of Part I, what does Sellers think about how the country has changed in the 50 years since the Orangeburg Massacre?

10. In the Introduction, how does Sellers describe the so-called Low Country of South Carolina?

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