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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Green often visit during his childhood?
(a) Mount Rushmore.
(b) Mount Washington.
(c) Six Flags Adventure.
(d) Disney World.

2. How many stars does green award to the Hall of Presidents?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4 and a half.

3. Where did Green grow up?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Orlando, Florida.
(c) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(d) New York, New York.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

11. Why did Green spend so much time at the Hall of Presidents as a teenager?
(a) He loved American history.
(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 was working on a book about one president in particular.

12. Who discovered the Lascaux Cave Paintings?
(a) A mother and her children out on a picnic.
(b) A team of anthropologists.
(c) Four teenagers and a dog.
(d) A soldier who was lost.

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

14. What has happened to the weather over the last 100 years or so, as Green mentions in his essay on Air-Conditioning?
(a) It has gotten hotter.
(b) It has gotten colder.
(c) It has stayed the same.
(d) He does not mention the weather in this section.

15. 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.

Short Answer 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?

2. What book and movie popularized but also led to misconceptions about velociraptors?

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

4. What genre does Green draw connections with to reviews?

5. What items did Green find particularly comforting to look over when he was being bullied at school as a child?

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