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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organization did Sellers's father drop out of college to join?
(a) NOW.
(b) RLTB.
(c) NAACP.
(d) SNCC.

2. What is one of the most important days of Sellers's life even though it happened before his birth?
(a) July 24, 1950.
(b) February 8, 1968.
(c) March 19, 1965.
(d) December 15, 1955.

3. What did Pop turn his attention to after his father's death?
(a) History.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Football and Soccer.
(d) Computers.

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

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

6. Which well-known actor went to the same college Sellers attended?
(a) Denzel Washington.
(b) Samuel L. Jackson.
(c) Ricky Lee.
(d) Laurence Fishburn.

7. What does Sellers say many people have done if they are from rural South Carolina?
(a) Fished in a lake.
(b) Ridden down a dirt road to get home.
(c) Installed an air conditioner.
(d) Eaten catfish.

8. How did Sellers's parents first try to make a living in the town they moved to in the 1990s?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Restaurant business.
(c) Running the motel next door to where they lived.
(d) Farming.

9. What did Sellers's grandmother die from?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Breast cancer.

10. What kinds of fish did Sellers use to catch with his siblings?
(a) Catfish.
(b) Crappies.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Bass.

11. What is the game of put-downs called?
(a) The Driving.
(b) The Dozens.
(c) The One Hundred.
(d) The Jive.

12. What hospital closed its doors in 2012 due to lack of funds and petty politics, according to Sellers?
(a) Bamburg Hospital.
(b) Barlington Hospital.
(c) St. Lucy's Hospital.
(d) Cook's Hospital.

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

14. Where did Sellers attend College?
(a) Morehouse.
(b) Yale.
(c) Hillman.
(d) Spellman.

15. How much older than Sellers is his brother Lumumba?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 8 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sellers live before moving to the town he thinks of as his hometown?

2. When did Pop get shot?

3. What was Pop's neighborhood called?

4. Which governor seemed to plot against Cleveland Sellers and other protesters in the late 1960s?

5. Whose killing inspired Cleveland Sellers to do more in the civil rights movement?

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