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

2. What items did Green find particularly comforting to look over when he was being bullied at school as a child?
(a) Bird houses.
(b) Scratch 'n' Sniff stickers.
(c) Suncatchers.
(d) Stamps.

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

4. How does Green remember the smell of rain from his childhood?
(a) As being anxiety-inducing.
(b) As being like grass.
(c) As being more acidic than it is now.
(d) As being like fertilizer.

5. What word did Green and his friends use to connote artificiality during his teenage years?
(a) Hard.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Lame.
(d) Frightful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason Green likes Halley's Comet?

2. Why did Northern Europeans often try not to say the word for "bear"?

3. What did Green once tell a girlfriend in college was his biggest fear?

4. Which soccer player did the player whose performance Green reviews in this section mimic to bring his team the championship?

5. What were some of the subjects of the Lascaux Cave Paintings?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Green like Halley's Comet?

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 does Green think of the Hall of Presidents at Disney World?

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

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

7. What is the paradox of air-conditioning, according to Green?

8. What is one of the big mysteries around Halley's Comet, according to Green?

9. What difficulties did Green struggle with as an adolescent?

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

(see the answer keys)

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