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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) Ricky Lee.
(b) Samuel L. Jackson.
(c) Laurence Fishburn.
(d) Denzel Washington.

2. Who was Sellers's college roomate?
(a) Jarrod Loadholt.
(b) Marshall Mathers.
(c) Jerome Selling.
(d) Robert James.

3. Whose killing inspired Cleveland Sellers to do more in the civil rights movement?
(a) Medgar Evers'.
(b) Rosa Park's.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
(d) Emmett Till's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What job did Sellers briefly try as a teenager?

3. What turned Sellers's friend Pop off of computers?

4. What does Sellers say many people have done if they are from rural South Carolina?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

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

3. What was the period between when Cleveland Sellers was arrested in 1968 and when he was pardoned in 1990 like for Cleveland Sellers?

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

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

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

7. At the end of Part I, what does Sellers think about how the country has changed in the 50 years since the Orangeburg Massacre?

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

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

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

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