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

2. What did the boys from DC mostly wear at Sellers's college?
(a) Blue.
(b) Purple and red.
(c) Yellow and green.
(d) Black, red, and blue.

3. What does Pop think will haunt him for life?
(a) His car accident.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) His drug addiction.
(d) His prison record.

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

5. 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 sandwiches to other congresspeople.
(d) Delivering South Carolina peaches to other congresspeople.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Pop's neighborhood called?

2. What kinds of fish did Sellers use to catch with his siblings?

3. What is the game of put-downs called?

4. What did Sellers's grandmother die from?

5. When did Pop get his GED?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Sellers feel about Morehouse College?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does being "country" mean to Sellers?

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

10. What was significant about The Orangeburg Massacre's place in history?

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