View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Plague years, according to Green?
(a) The way royalty turned its back on the public.
(b) The abandonment of the ill.
(c) The lack of medication.
(d) The proliferation of religious services.

2. What did self-service grocery stores fuel the rise of?
(a) Book stores.
(b) Produce vendors.
(c) Processed foods.
(d) Milk companies.

3. Why does Green think Auld Lang Syne is so popular in movies?
(a) It is a short song.
(b) It is in the public domain.
(c) It is a happy song.
(d) It is a song everyone knows.

4. How many stars does Green award to Monopoly?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 1 and a half.
(d) 3.

5. Who does Green assert actually created the original version of Monopoly?
(a) Elizabeth Magie.
(b) Clarence Darrow.
(c) John Rockefeller.
(d) Henry Ford.

6. Who wrote the song Auld Lang Syne?
(a) Rick Astley.
(b) Mick Jagger.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Robert Burns.

7. Where did Green first see Doi's ink drawings for the first time?
(a) At the Tate Modern Museum in 2010.
(b) At the American Fold Art Museum's show about obsessive drawing in 2006.
(c) At the Guggenheim Museum in 2019.
(d) At the Hirshorn Museum in 2017.

8. Where did Green's grandfather work, as he writes in the first review of Part III?
(a) Uniroyal.
(b) Harper Street.
(c) Haines.
(d) Piggy Wiggly.

9. In the review on the Bonneville Salt Flats, who does Green say is his favorite person?
(a) His brother Hank.
(b) His mother.
(c) His best friend Chris.
(d) His wife Sarah.

10. What does Green find in the section on Googling strangers when he finally Googles a very sick child he met years earlier?
(a) The child died.
(b) The child survived.
(c) He can not find the child online.
(d) He can only find the child's twin brother.

11. How many times does Green estimate he has signed his name in his review of Hiroyuki Doi's Circle Drawings?
(a) Over 500,000.
(b) About 200,000.
(c) About 10,000.
(d) About 100,000.

12. Where and when did the first Piggly Wiggly open?
(a) Chicago, 1925.
(b) Philadelphia, 1956.
(c) Memphis, 1916.
(d) Atlanta, 1932.

13. Why did Green travel to the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2018?
(a) For a family wedding.
(b) He had always wanted to see the salt flats.
(c) For a funeral.
(d) For a program Green's wife was producing.

14. What does Green think about the amount of shared resources we devote to our lawn grass?
(a) It is just right.
(b) It is not enough.
(c) It is a staggeringly large amount.
(d) He has never thought about this question.

15. Who launched CNN?
(a) Rupert Murdoch.
(b) Ted Turner.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Richard Rodark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was once long beloved as the greatest eater of all time in the hot dog contest at Coney Island?

2. What kind of stores did the Piggly Wiggly push out of business?

3. What serious illness did Green contract in 2014?

4. What plays a significant role in the outcome of the video game Green reviews in Part IV?

5. Which toy company produces Monopoly?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 492 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample