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 did Sellers ask his opponent in 2014 to do during an interview on MSNBC?

2. Who was Sellers's fiance formerly married to?

3. What symbol that many find racist and offensive was still displayed at the South Carolina State Capitol when Sellers was sworn in as a legislator?

4. What had Sellers helped to build in Denmark?

5. Where do South Carolina candidates often meet to do informal business?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reaction did Sellers often have to the hateful speech and messages he received via social media?

2. What does Sellers think was the start of his struggle with anxiety?

3. What does Sellers thinks was the cause of his mother's anxiety and depression?

4. Why did the Georgia House of Representatives refuse to seat Julian Bond after he won an election there in 1965?

5. What mistake did Sellers realize he and the other organizers made during Obama's 2007 visit to South Carolina State University in Orangeburg?

6. What is the role of the Church Fish Fry in Southern politics?

7. Why were some Black people in South Carolina nervous about the candidacy of Barack Obama for president, according to Sellers?

8. What did Sellers challenge his opponent for Lieutenant Governor to do on MSNBC?

9. When did Sellers first plot his run for South Carolina's House of Representatives?

10. Why did Sellers feel so proud on the stage with Obama in Orangeburg in 2007?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the impact of the 2015 Mother Emmanuel A.M.E. Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina on Sellers and on the Black community at large.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What did the Sellers name mean in the area of South Carolina where Bakari Sellers grew up? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 660 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample