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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. How many stars does Green award to Staphylococcus aureus?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2 and a half.

2. Why did Northern Europeans often try not to say the word for "bear"?
(a) They feared saying the name would summon a bear.
(b) Bears were too sacred in their cultures to say their name.
(c) They had been told if they said the name, their parents would punish them.
(d) They did not have a word for bear.

3. About how long did it take Earth to go from single-celled to multicellular life?
(a) One million years.
(b) Five hundred thousand years.
(c) One billion years.
(d) Three billion years.

4. What does Green say his friend Stan Muller tells him in Green's review of the internet?
(a) When you are living in the middle of history, you never know what it means.
(b) Plan for the future.
(c) Live for today.
(d) The internet is the worst thing to ever happen to humans.

5. What did a college girlfriend of Green's once tell him her biggest fear was?
(a) Failure.
(b) Geese.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how many copies of The Great Gatsby sold in a year by around 1960?

3. What genre does Green draw connections with to reviews?

4. What is the first item or idea in this book that Green awards five stars to?

5. What has happened to the weather over the last 100 years or so, as Green mentions in his essay on Air-Conditioning?

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