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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. Which famous soccer player's performance does Green review at the end of Part II?
(a) Escobar.
(b) Pele.
(c) Jerry Hines.
(d) Jerzy Dudek.

2. What did Green once tell a girlfriend in college was his biggest fear?
(a) Failure.
(b) Death.
(c) Illness.
(d) Abandonment.

3. Where did Green often visit during his childhood?
(a) Disney World.
(b) Mount Rushmore.
(c) Mount Washington.
(d) Six Flags Adventure.

4. What country are the Lascaux Cave Paintings in?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) United Kingdom.

5. What is one main reason for the large-scale shift in human geography, according to Green?
(a) Where churches are built.
(b) Air-conditioning.
(c) Financial markets.
(d) Animal migration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What items did Green find particularly comforting to look over when he was being bullied at school as a child?

2. Who discovered penicillin?

3. What large toy company did the original makers of the teddy bear eventually found and run?

4. How does Green remember the smell of rain from his childhood?

5. How old was Green when he began participating in the Academic Decathlon in his review on the same subject?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Green's main memories of Scratch 'n' Sniff stickers from his childhood?

3. When Green first started using the internet as an adolescent, how did he feel about it?

4. How did Jerzy Dudek achieve his legendary goal-saving in a 2005 soccer match, according to Green?

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

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

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

8. What does Green think of Canada geese today?

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

10. Why does Green like Halley's Comet?

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