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

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

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

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

5. How many stars does Green give to Diet Dr. Pepper?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3 and 1/2.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one main reason for the large-scale shift in human geography, according to Green?

3. Which poet does Green excerpt a poem from in his review on sunsets?

4. What does Green say the teddy bear is a reminder of?

5. What does Green say his friend Stan Muller tells him in Green's review of the internet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Green's brother Hank tell him about the coronavirus pandemic that unnerves Green?

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

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

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

5. What does Green think of Canada geese today?

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

7. What did F. Scott Fitzgerald think of the reviews of his book The Great Gatsby?

8. What habit did Green eventually replace smoking with that he feels is much less harmful?

9. What misconceptions does Green say most people have about velociraptors?

10. What aspects of how humans treated the Lascaux Cave Paintings does Green find encouraging?

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