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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Green say the teddy bear is a reminder of?
(a) The astonishing power of contemporary humanity.
(b) The comfort of a parent's gift on Christmas morning.
(c) The ways in which misconceptions are perpetuated.
(d) The wonders of childhood.

3. How many stars does Green give air-conditioning?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

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

6. Who discovered penicillin?
(a) Joseph Listerine.
(b) James Ogston.
(c) Alexander Fleming.
(d) Rosalind Franklin.

7. What was one of the top of the 10 things that Green said scared him on the podcast "10 Things That Scare Me"?
(a) Deer.
(b) A global pandemic.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Jell-O.

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

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

10. What publication did Green write some of his earliest reviews for?
(a) Napster.
(b) The Bookster.
(c) Booklist.
(d) Publisher's Weekly.

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

12. Where did Green get a Staphylococcus aureus infection several years before writing the book?
(a) In his ankle.
(b) In his hand.
(c) In his brain.
(d) In his eye.

13. How many stars does Green give to the Academic Decathlon?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4 and a half.

14. 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) MTV Teen in the House.
(b) Horror Story Fans.
(c) CompuServe Teen Forum.
(d) AOL Teen Live.

15. What is one of Green's favorite drinks?
(a) Beer.
(b) Coke.
(c) Diet Dr. Pepper.
(d) Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie's opening sequence does Green improbably say is one of the best film moments of all time?

2. Who began sending copies of The Great Gatsby to troops overseas in 1942?

3. What country was the soccer player whose performance Green reviews in this section originally from?

4. 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?

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

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