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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. Where did Sellers live before moving to the town he thinks of as his hometown?

2. How much older than Sellers is his brother Lumumba?

3. Before 9/11, who were the only terrorists Sellers said he had ever heard about?

4. Who had attended Morehouse but failed out and returned back to Sellers's hometown?

5. How many people were injured at the Orangeburg Massacre?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the Sellers family react to Pop's shooting?

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

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

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

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

10. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

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

How does Sellers view the Black Lives Matter movement? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring and explaining Sellers's feelings about the divergent paths of his own life and that of his good friend from Denmark, Pop.

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