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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 kinds of fish did Sellers use to catch with his siblings?
(a) Crappies.
(b) Salmon.
(c) Catfish.
(d) Bass.

2. Which of the following colleges is in Sellers's hometown?
(a) Amulet University.
(b) Atlanta University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Vorhees College.

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

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

5. When did Pop get his GED?
(a) 2019.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2015.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the fiftieth anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre?

2. What does Sellers write that Denmark is a part of in the very beginning of Part II?

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

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

5. What city is Sellers from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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