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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 54, "You'll Never Walk Alone" to "Velociraptors").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Green remember the smell of rain from his childhood?
(a) As being like fertilizer.
(b) As being anxiety-inducing.
(c) As being more acidic than it is now.
(d) As being like grass.

2. Who began sending copies of The Great Gatsby to troops overseas in 1942?
(a) The American Library Association.
(b) The Associated Press.
(c) The Smock Foundation.
(d) The U.S. Council on Books in Wartime.

3. Where was the planetarium Green visited when he was 9 or 10?
(a) The Orlando Science Center.
(b) The Chicago Science Center.
(c) The Atlanta Science Center.
(d) San Francisco.

4. Who wrote the book The Great Gatsby?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) Langston Hughes.

5. Who took ownership of the site of the Lascaux Cave Paintings after WWII?
(a) The French government.
(b) The U.S. Government.
(c) The Swiss government.
(d) The German government.

Short Answer Questions

1. When will Halley's Comet be five times closer to the Earth than it was in 1986?

2. What rating does Green give human temporal range?

3. About how long did it take Earth to go from single-celled to multicellular life?

4. Which kind of organisms tend to have shorter temporal ranges than simple ones?

5. When does the story of Diet Dr. Pepper begin, according to Green?

(see the answer key)

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