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

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

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

4. What did Sellers say he looked like when he started college?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Sellers feel about Morehouse College?

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

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

5. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

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 does Sellers describe his family's finances growing up?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining Sellers's decision-making process in trying to weigh whether or not to endorse Barack Obama for president in 2008.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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

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