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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovered Staphylococcus?
(a) Alexander Ogston.
(b) James Payne.
(c) Joseph Lister.
(d) Watson Henry.

2. Who were the original makers of the first teddy bear, according to Green?
(a) Chris and Angstron Harlow.
(b) The Wright Brothers.
(c) Morris and Rose Mitchom.
(d) Henderson Toy company.

3. About how many copies of The Great Gatsby sold in a year by around 1960?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

4. When will Halley's Comet be five times closer to the Earth than it was in 1986?
(a) 2381.
(b) 2181.
(c) 2061.
(d) 2261.

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

6. What book and movie popularized but also led to misconceptions about velociraptors?
(a) Large Teeth.
(b) Dinos!
(c) Jurassic Park.
(d) Paleontologists.

7. What group did Green first participate in on the internet when he first began using it in his review of the internet in this section?
(a) Horror Story Fans.
(b) MTV Teen in the House.
(c) CompuServe Teen Forum.
(d) AOL Teen Live.

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

9. How many stars does Green give to Diet Dr. Pepper?
(a) 5.
(b) 3 and 1/2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

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

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

12. What were the last words Maurice Sendak ever said in an interview?
(a) Onward!
(b) Take heart.
(c) Live your life.
(d) We are all tired.

13. 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) Whether or not there were snacks available.
(d) Office temperature.

14. Who wrote the play Liliom that debuted in Budapest in 1909?
(a) Vlolak Djokovic.
(b) Rodger Hammerstein.
(c) Ferenc Molnar.
(d) Ted Henry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stars does Green award to Staphylococcus aureus?

2. 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?

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

4. What does Green say the teddy bear is a reminder of?

5. Whose name is the phrase "Teddy Bear" derived from?

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