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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 Sellers doing the night Pop got shot?
(a) Watching the NCAA championship in Columbia.
(b) In college at Chapel Hill.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Commentating on CNN.

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

3. When was Sellers placed on academic probation in college?
(a) His first semester.
(b) The last semester of his senior year.
(c) His second year.
(d) His third year, in the first semester.

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

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. How old was Sellers when he started college?

2. What was one of Sellers's jobs as an intern at the congressperson's office while in college?

3. Whose killing inspired Cleveland Sellers to do more in the civil rights movement?

4. Where is Sellers's mother originally from?

5. Which famous civil rights leader is Sellers pictured with as a baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Sellers say Denmark is part of the forgotten South?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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