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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. What happened to Pop when he took a knife to high school once?
(a) He was sent to jail.
(b) He was fined.
(c) He was sent to juvenile hall.
(d) He was expelled.

2. When did Pop get shot?
(a) 2019.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2010.

3. What did people in Sellers's town call people who went to church all dressed up once per year?
(a) Summer churchies.
(b) Pagans.
(c) Easter families.
(d) Christmas Christians.

4. What does Sellers say there was before there were trolls?
(a) Driving.
(b) Jiving.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Reeling.

5. What was one of Sellers's jobs as an intern at the congressperson's office while in college?
(a) Drafting speeches.
(b) Delivering South Carolina peaches to other congresspeople.
(c) Delivering sandwiches to other congresspeople.
(d) Delivering letters to the White House.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Pop turn his attention to after his father's death?

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

5. Where did Sellers intern after his freshman year at college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What challenges did Sellers face during his first year at Morehouse?

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

6. What is jiving as Sellers describes it?

7. What was Sellers's relationship to religion growing up?

8. In the Introduction, how does Sellers describe the so-called Low Country of South Carolina?

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

10. How does Sellers feel about Morehouse College?

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