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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 hospital closed its doors in 2012 due to lack of funds and petty politics, according to Sellers?
(a) Cook's Hospital.
(b) Barlington Hospital.
(c) St. Lucy's Hospital.
(d) Bamburg Hospital.

2. Where did Sellers attend College?
(a) Spellman.
(b) Yale.
(c) Hillman.
(d) Morehouse.

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

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

5. Where did Emmett Till's mother publish his funeral pictures?
(a) Newsweek Magazine.
(b) Jet Magazine.
(c) Ebony Magazine.
(d) Time Magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sellers's mother begin teaching when the family lived in South Carolina?

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

3. What Church did Sellers's family join in 1990?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

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

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