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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Part II, what animal does Green say is terribly misunderstood in our culture because of a decades-old Disney documentary?
(a) Cats.
(b) Lemmings.
(c) Bears.
(d) Deer.

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

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

4. How does Green remember the smell of rain from his childhood?
(a) As being like grass.
(b) As being anxiety-inducing.
(c) As being like fertilizer.
(d) As being more acidic than it is now.

5. What rating does Green give the song "You'll Never Walk Alone"?
(a) 4 and a half stars.
(b) 2 stars.
(c) 1 star.
(d) 5 stars.

6. Which famous soccer player's performance does Green review at the end of Part II?
(a) Jerry Hines.
(b) Jerzy Dudek.
(c) Escobar.
(d) Pele.

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

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

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

10. How old was Green when he began participating in the Academic Decathlon in his review on the same subject?
(a) 18.
(b) About 14 or 15.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

11. Why did Green spend so much time at the Hall of Presidents as a teenager?
(a) He was working on a book about one president in particular.
(b) It had the best air-conditioning and he did not like the rest of Disney World.
(c) He liked watching all the classes come through there.
(d) He loved American history.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stars does Green give to the Academic Decathlon?

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

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

4. What has happened to the weather over the last 100 years or so, as Green mentions in his essay on Air-Conditioning?

5. What word did Green and his friends use to connote artificiality during his teenage years?

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