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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. Who interviewed Sellers in 2014 for a Black Leadership video collection?
(a) Marlon Jackson.
(b) Julian Bond.
(c) Katherine Kleaver.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

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

3. What is the game of put-downs called?
(a) The Dozens.
(b) The Jive.
(c) The Driving.
(d) The One Hundred.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the most important days of Sellers's life even though it happened before his birth?

3. What state is Sellers from?

4. At what stage of college was Sellers when the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks occured?

5. How old was Sellers when he started college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sellers feel about Morehouse College?

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

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

4. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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