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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which kind of organisms tend to have shorter temporal ranges than simple ones?
(a) Water-based ones.
(b) Land-based ones.
(c) Blue ones.
(d) Complex ones.

2. Where did Green once work as a student chaplain?
(a) A children's hospital.
(b) A school.
(c) A bank.
(d) A military base.

3. What rating does Green give human temporal range?
(a) 3 stars.
(b) 4 stars.
(c) 5 stars.
(d) 1 star.

4. Why was the Lascaux Cave closed to the public eventually?
(a) The cave was being used by animals for their nests.
(b) The government started charging admission and there was a legal dispute.
(c) The cave was flooded.
(d) People's viewing of the paintings was destroying them with mold and wear and tear.

5. What items did Green find particularly comforting to look over when he was being bullied at school as a child?
(a) Bird houses.
(b) Stamps.
(c) Scratch 'n' Sniff stickers.
(d) Suncatchers.

6. 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.

7. What genre does Green draw connections with to reviews?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Horror.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Romance.

8. What is the first item or idea in this book that Green awards five stars to?
(a) Sunsets.
(b) The internet.
(c) The Human Capacity for Wonder.
(d) Dogs.

9. 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 essential to human life.
(b) They keep going.
(c) They are mystical.
(d) They are worthless.

10. What did a 2004 Cornell study find affected workplace productivity, as Green explains it in the section on air-conditioning?
(a) How much caffeine workers consumed.
(b) How many books were in the office.
(c) Office temperature.
(d) Whether or not there were snacks available.

11. About how many copies of The Great Gatsby sell in a typical year in at the time of this book's publication in 2021?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 2,000,000.
(c) 8,000,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

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

13. How many stars does Green give velociraptors?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

15. Which poet does Green excerpt a poem from in his review on sunsets?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) E.E. Cummings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Green's dog who he writes about in his review of sunsets?

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

3. Who wrote the play Liliom that debuted in Budapest in 1909?

4. What is one main reason for the large-scale shift in human geography, according to Green?

5. What does Green identify as probably the biggest shared challenge facing Twenty-first Century humans in the section on air-conditioning?

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