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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 223 - 274, "The Hotdogs of Baejarins Beztu Pylsur" to "Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose name is the phrase "Teddy Bear" derived from?
(a) Teddy Ruckspin.
(b) Teddy Clark.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Teddy Kennedy.

2. When does the story of Diet Dr. Pepper begin, according to Green?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1885.

3. What does Green find in the section on Googling strangers when he finally Googles a very sick child he met years earlier?
(a) The child died.
(b) He can only find the child's twin brother.
(c) The child survived.
(d) He can not find the child online.

4. How old was Green when he began participating in the Academic Decathlon in his review on the same subject?
(a) 18.
(b) About 14 or 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

5. How many stars does Green award to the Bonneville Salt Flats?
(a) 4.
(b) 3 and a half.
(c) 2.
(d) 1 and a half.

Short Answer Questions

1. What class of drugs are usually used to treat Staphylococcus infections?

2. Whose life and death coincided roughly with appearances of Halley's Comet?

3. What does Green think about the amount of shared resources we devote to our lawn grass?

4. What country are the Lascaux Cave Paintings in?

5. What does Green say his friend Stan Muller tells him in Green's review of the internet?

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