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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 55 - 112, "Canada Geese" to "Penguins of Madagascar").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country was the soccer player whose performance Green reviews in this section originally from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Spain.
(d) Poland.

2. What country are the Lascaux Cave Paintings in?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) United Kingdom.
(d) Switzerland.

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

4. What did Todd once tell Green about his thoughts on rivers when they sat near one once as teenagers in the review on Academic Decathlon?
(a) They are mystical.
(b) They are worthless.
(c) They are essential to human life.
(d) They keep going.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author of The Great Gatsby think of some of its earliest reviews?

2. What were the last words Maurice Sendak ever said in an interview?

3. Where did Green often visit during his childhood?

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

5. What did a 2004 Cornell study find affected workplace productivity, as Green explains it in the section on air-conditioning?

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