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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 was the last stop on Sellers's 2014 campaign?

2. Where did Sellers live during the summer of his junior year of college?

3. What kind of law expert was Barack Obama?

4. Why did some Blacks tell Sellers they were nervous about Barack Obama running for president?

5. Who became Sellers's fiance?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Sellers initially hesitate to endorse Barack Obama for president in 2007?

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

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

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

6. What does Sellers think is one positive aspect of anger?

7. What political risk did Sellers take in 2014?

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

9. How did Ellen, Sellers's partner, react to his decision to run for lieutenant governor?

10. What happened in the SGA race Sellers ran at Morehouse?

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

What does Sellers thinks Donald Trump's presidential campaign and presidency say about America, and about race relations in America? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

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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