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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 was the planetarium Green visited when he was 9 or 10?
(a) The Orlando Science Center.
(b) The Atlanta Science Center.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) The Chicago Science Center.

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

3. What were some of the subjects of the Lascaux Cave Paintings?
(a) Animals.
(b) Waterways.
(c) Celestial bodies.
(d) Ghosts.

4. What country was the soccer player whose performance Green reviews in this section originally from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Germany.
(c) Poland.
(d) Ireland.

5. Whose name is the phrase "Teddy Bear" derived from?
(a) Teddy Ruckspin.
(b) Teddy Clark.
(c) Teddy Kennedy.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book and movie popularized but also led to misconceptions about velociraptors?

3. What has happened to the weather over the last 100 years or so, as Green mentions in his essay on Air-Conditioning?

4. What was the name of Green's dog who he writes about in his review of sunsets?

5. At the end of Part II, what animal does Green say is terribly misunderstood in our culture because of a decades-old Disney documentary?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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