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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 was Sellers's college roomate?
(a) Jerome Selling.
(b) Jarrod Loadholt.
(c) Marshall Mathers.
(d) Robert James.

2. What Church did Sellers's family join in 1990?
(a) St. Sarah's.
(b) Mother Theresa's.
(c) St. Emanuel.
(d) St. Philips.

3. What was Sellers doing the night Pop got shot?
(a) Commentating on CNN.
(b) In college at Chapel Hill.
(c) Watching the NCAA championship in Columbia.
(d) Getting married.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Pop upset about in Part II to do with Sellers's life?

2. When did Pop get shot?

3. Who is Sellers's father?

4. Which of the following colleges is in Sellers's hometown?

5. What organization did Sellers's father drop out of college to join?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sellers say Denmark is part of the forgotten South?

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

3. What does Sellers think about his father's involvement in the Orangeburg Massacre?

4. How does Sellers feel about Morehouse College?

5. Why did Pop have trouble finding well-paid work even after earning his college degree?

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

7. At the end of Part I, what does Sellers think about how the country has changed in the 50 years since the Orangeburg Massacre?

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

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

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

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