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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Pop get his GED?

2. What does Pop think will haunt him for life?

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

4. What hospital closed its doors in 2012 due to lack of funds and petty politics, according to Sellers?

5. What does Sellers say there was before there were trolls?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Sellers describe his family's finances growing up?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Sellers feel about Morehouse College?

9. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What factors does Sellers attribute the high maternal mortality rates Black women in the U.S. suffer to, and what other general factors contribute to the often inferior medical treatment and access that Black people experience in America today? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What do tattoos mean to Sellers, and what do some of the tattoos he has symbolize for him? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What did Sellers learn from James Clyburn, the longtime Black congressman from South Carolina, that helped him in his political career? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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