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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. Where did Green once work as a student chaplain?
(a) A bank.
(b) A school.
(c) A children's hospital.
(d) A military base.
2. What country are the Lascaux Cave Paintings in?
(a) France.
(b) United Kingdom.
(c) Germany.
(d) Switzerland.
3. About how many copies of The Great Gatsby sell in a typical year in at the time of this book's publication in 2021?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 8,000,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 2,000,000.
4. How many stars does Green give velociraptors?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.
5. How many stars does Green give air-conditioning?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.
Short Answer Questions
1. When will Halley's Comet be five times closer to the Earth than it was in 1986?
2. Where did Green get a Staphylococcus aureus infection several years before writing the book?
3. Who wrote the book The Great Gatsby?
4. What word did Green and his friends use to connote artificiality during his teenage years?
5. What movie's opening sequence does Green improbably say is one of the best film moments of all time?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Green think of the Hall of Presidents at Disney World?
2. What aspects of how humans treated the Lascaux Cave Paintings does Green find encouraging?
3. What does Green say would have happened to him before about 1940 if he had gotten the same Staph infection he got some years ago?
4. How did Jerzy Dudek achieve his legendary goal-saving in a 2005 soccer match, according to Green?
5. What misconception about lemmings does Green discuss in the essay "Penguins of Madagascar"?
6. What does Green credit the Academic Decathlon with in his life?
7. What connection does the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" have to Green's favorite sports team in Part I?
8. In the Introduction, what does Green say this book started life as?
9. What is the paradox of air-conditioning, according to Green?
10. What does Green's brother Hank tell him about the coronavirus pandemic that unnerves Green?
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