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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 much older than Sellers is his brother Lumumba?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 2 years.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who or what is Sellers's city named after?

3. Who was Sellers's college roomate?

4. Who had attended Morehouse but failed out and returned back to Sellers's hometown?

5. Which well-known actor went to the same college Sellers attended?

Short Essay Questions

1. What challenges did Sellers face during his first year at Morehouse?

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

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

4. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

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

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

7. What was Sellers's relationship to religion growing up?

8. How does Sellers say many people get around for transportation in Denmark?

9. What does Sellers think about his father's involvement in the Orangeburg Massacre?

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

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