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

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

3. What do people in Sellers' hometown say when asking about family connections?
(a) What's your kinship?
(b) What's your name?
(c) Who are your family?
(d) Who's your people?

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sellers's mother begin teaching when the family lived in South Carolina?

2. When did Pop get his GED?

3. Who was Sellers's favorite basketball team as a child?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Julian Bond think was ironic about the Orangeburg Massacre?

3. What happened to the nine policemen put on trial for the events at the Orangeburg Massacre?

4. How does Sellers feel about Morehouse College?

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

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

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

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

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. How did Sellers get his internship at Congressman Jim Clyburn's office?

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