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 organization did Sellers's father drop out of college to join?

2. When did Pop get his GED?

3. Where did Sellers's father receive his graduate degree?

4. Who or what is Sellers's city named after?

5. Where is Sellers's mother originally from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sellers feel about Morehouse College?

2. What is Sellers's alternative history about the naming of Denmark, South Carolina?

3. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

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

5. What challenges did Sellers face during his first year at Morehouse?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role did Cleveland Sellers, Bakari Sellers's father, play in the civil rights movement? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Sellers describe his feelings about the racist and hate-filled messages he receives regularly via social media? What does Sellers feel the best reaction and/or response to these kinds of messages is? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 559 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample