9 slain in South Carolina church

Q: A 21-year-old white man has been arrested in the slaying of nine people during a prayer service at a historic African American church in South Carolina. A survivor said the gunman told victims, “You're taking over our country, and you have to go.” Where is South Carolina?

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Q: The church attack took place in the port city where the American Civil War began in 1861 when Confederate troops shelled Fort Sumter in its harbor. Which city is that?

A .St. Augustine

B. Baltimore

C. Charleston

D. Savannah

Q: Police identified the shooting suspect as Dylann Roof, whose Facebook profile page said he lived in South Carolina's capital . . .

A. Columbia

B. Charlotte

C. Charleston

D. Raleigh

Q: Roof's picture on Facebook showed him wearing a jacket with flags of two former white supremacist regimes - the apartheid-era South Africa and the state of Rhodesia, which is now the nation of . . .

A. Botswana

B. Kenya

C. Tanzania

D. Zimbabwe

Q: Roof was arrested during a traffic stop in Shelby, N.C., about 250 miles from Charleston. South Carolina is bordered by North Carolina and . . .

A. Alabama

B. Georgia

C. Mississippi

D. Tennessee


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