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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had attended Morehouse but failed out and returned back to Sellers's hometown?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Lenny.
(c) James.
(d) Ricky.

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

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

4. Before 9/11, who were the only terrorists Sellers said he had ever heard about?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan.
(b) The Taliban.
(c) The Weathermen.
(d) The Jersey Six.

5. What was Pop's neighborhood called?
(a) The Track.
(b) The Hookz.
(c) The Red.
(d) The Black Forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sellers's mother begin teaching when the family lived in South Carolina?

2. What popular beverage used to be bottled in Sellers's hometown?

3. What organization was Sellers's grandmother a board member of?

4. Who interviewed Sellers in 2014 for a Black Leadership video collection?

5. What do people in Sellers' hometown say when asking about family connections?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tragedy happened in Pop's family when Pop was just a young boy?

2. What did Julian Bond think was ironic about the Orangeburg Massacre?

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

4. What is Sellers's alternative history about the naming of Denmark, South Carolina?

5. How does Sellers say many people get around for transportation in Denmark?

6. How did Sellers get his internship at Congressman Jim Clyburn's office?

7. How does Sellers describe his family's finances growing up?

8. What often set Sellers apart from his peers at school?

9. What was the period between when Cleveland Sellers was arrested in 1968 and when he was pardoned in 1990 like for Cleveland Sellers?

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

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