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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 is the game of put-downs called?

2. What does Sellers write that Denmark is a part of in the very beginning of Part II?

3. What job did Sellers briefly try as a teenager?

4. How old was Sellers when he started college?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Sellers describe his feelings about the origins of his own anxiety and mental health struggles? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the lessons Sellers learned from his failed bid for lieutenant governor of South Carolina? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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

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