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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Sellers briefly try as a teenager?
(a) Doing taxes.
(b) Mowing lawns.
(c) Selling ice cream.
(d) Picking melons.

2. At what stage of college was Sellers when the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks occured?
(a) His senior year.
(b) He was not yet in college.
(c) His junior year.
(d) His freshman year.

3. What turned Sellers's friend Pop off of computers?
(a) His father had bought him one just before he died tragically.
(b) He never learned to use one because he was afraid of them.
(c) They were always too expensive.
(d) He stole one, and the crime sent him to jail.

4. What substance had the state government been adding to the water in Denmark for years?
(a) Lead.
(b) HaloSan.
(c) Beano.
(d) Chlorinated Sulfate.

5. Who helped run Sellers's campaings for elected office from his college days?
(a) Jarrod.
(b) James.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Brandon.

6. When was Cleveland Sellers pardoned?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1975.

7. Who was Sellers's favorite basketball team as a child?
(a) Florida State.
(b) NYU.
(c) Duke.
(d) UConn.

8. Who was Sellers's good friend as a child who became part of his extended family?
(a) Gerald.
(b) Robert.
(c) Pop.
(d) Norlon.

9. Which governor seemed to plot against Cleveland Sellers and other protesters in the late 1960s?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) Nicholas James.
(c) Marlon Freed.
(d) Robert McNair.

10. What organization was Sellers's grandmother a board member of?
(a) NOW.
(b) SNCC.
(c) Baptist Christian Council.
(d) NAACP.

11. Who or what is Sellers's city named after?
(a) Francis Atlanta.
(b) B.A. Denmark.
(c) A French count.
(d) A city in Holland.

12. Whose killing inspired Cleveland Sellers to do more in the civil rights movement?
(a) Emmett Till's.
(b) Rosa Park's.
(c) Medgar Evers'.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.

13. When was the fiftieth anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2019.

14. Where did Sellers's mother begin teaching when the family lived in South Carolina?
(a) Nillhill University.
(b) South Carolina State University.
(c) Bowling Green State University.
(d) University at Chapel Hill.

15. What do many people in Denmark use to get around, even older adults?
(a) Bicycles.
(b) Skateboards.
(c) Scooters.
(d) Lawn mowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did some people describe Sellers's mother?

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

3. How did Sellers's parents first try to make a living in the town they moved to in the 1990s?

4. How old was Sellers when he started college?

5. What was the first deadly shootout to occur on a U.S. college campus involving police?

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