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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 169 - 222, "The Indianapolis 500" - "Wintry Mix").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the song Auld Lang Syne?
(a) Mick Jagger.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Robert Burns.
(d) Rick Astley.

2. What did Green once tell a girlfriend in college was his biggest fear?
(a) Illness.
(b) Failure.
(c) Abandonment.
(d) Death.

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 survived.
(b) He can only find the child's twin brother.
(c) He can not find the child online.
(d) The child died.

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

5. What has happened to the weather over the last 100 years or so, as Green mentions in his essay on Air-Conditioning?
(a) It has stayed the same.
(b) It has gotten colder.
(c) He does not mention the weather in this section.
(d) It has gotten hotter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the top of the 10 things that Green said scared him on the podcast "10 Things That Scare Me"?

2. Who founded a huge grocery store chain, as Green details in the first review of Part III?

3. What rating does Green give the song "You'll Never Walk Alone"?

4. In his review of Plague, what years were the worst for that disease in terms of recorded deaths, according to Green?

5. What does Green write happened to the founder of Piggly Wiggly as he aged?

(see the answer key)

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