View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people in Sellers's town call people who went to church all dressed up once per year?

2. What did Pop turn his attention to after his father's death?

3. Who helped run Sellers's campaings for elected office from his college days?

4. What is one thing that Sellers writes some families in the rural South pass down to their children?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Sellers feel is his father Cleve's legacy regarding the civil rights movement and the push for Black equality in America? What impact did Cleve Sellers's activism have on Sellers's own opinions about politics and political service? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring the effect of Sellers's relationships with his siblings, especially his older sister Nosizwe.

Essay Topic 3

How does Sellers explain the cultural, social, and political atmosphere and values he was steeped in growing up in Denmark, South Carolina? Write an essay explaining your answers.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 585 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample