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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 give him a sense of anxiety.
(d) They make him angry.

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

5. Which kind of organisms tend to have shorter temporal ranges than simple ones?
(a) Complex ones.
(b) Blue ones.
(c) Water-based ones.
(d) Land-based ones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous soccer player's performance does Green review at the end of Part II?

2. What did a college girlfriend of Green's once tell him her biggest fear was?

3. Who wrote the play Liliom that debuted in Budapest in 1909?

4. Whose name is the phrase "Teddy Bear" derived from?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Green think of the Hall of Presidents at Disney World?

2. What particular aspect of human existence does Green associate sunsets with that he says is hard to admit and that scares him?

3. What does Green say really happened in the incident with Teddy Roosevelt and the bear that he and his group were hunting?

4. What genre does Green say he thinks his reviews share a lot in common with?

5. What connection does the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" have to Green's favorite sports team in Part I?

6. What does Green credit the Academic Decathlon with in his life?

7. In the Introduction, what does Green say this book started life as?

8. What misconception about lemmings does Green discuss in the essay "Penguins of Madagascar"?

9. Why does Green say he often consults his brother Hank when something is bothering him?

10. How does air-conditioning highlight matters of wealth and climate inequality?

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