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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. Which well-known actor went to the same college Sellers attended?
(a) Samuel L. Jackson.
(b) Laurence Fishburn.
(c) Denzel Washington.
(d) Ricky Lee.

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

3. Where was the so-called "Black Wall Street" in the early 1900s in America?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Tulsa.
(d) New York.

4. Who asked Sellers to give the keynote speech at the fiftieth anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre?
(a) Michael Marlon.
(b) Julian Bond.
(c) Jesse Jackson.
(d) Bill Hine.

5. Where did Sellers's father receive his graduate degree?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Emmett Till's mother publish his funeral pictures?

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

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

4. Who helped run Sellers's campaings for elected office from his college days?

5. Who is Sellers's older sister who became a doctor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What often set Sellers apart from his peers at school?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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