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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose life and death coincided roughly with appearances of Halley's Comet?
(a) Cleopatra's.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt's.
(c) Mark Twain's.
(d) Winston Churchill's.

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

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

5. What effect does seeing Canada geese in his yard have on Green?
(a) They give him a sense of suspicion.
(b) They give him a sense of nature in the suburbs.
(c) They make him angry.
(d) They give him a sense of anxiety.

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

7. When were the Lascaux Cave Paintings first discovered?
(a) May 1941.
(b) September 1940.
(c) August 1944.
(d) June 1942.

8. What does Green say a good sunset always does to him in the review of Sunsets?
(a) Makes him cry.
(b) Steals the words from him.
(c) Makes him angry.
(d) Makes him remember those he has lost.

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

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

11. What is one reason Green likes Halley's Comet?
(a) It was last visible to earth when he proposed to his wife.
(b) It is supposed to bring good luck.
(c) It is entirely predictable.
(d) His great-grandfather discovered it.

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

13. What class of drugs are usually used to treat Staphylococcus infections?
(a) Antibiotics.
(b) Anti-virals.
(c) Beta blockers.
(d) Narcotics.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the original makers of the first teddy bear, according to Green?

2. Where was the planetarium Green visited when he was 9 or 10?

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

4. Who discovered the Lascaux Cave Paintings?

5. What is one of Green's favorite drinks?

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