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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 does Green identify as probably the biggest shared challenge facing Twenty-first Century humans in the section on air-conditioning?
(a) Food shortages.
(b) Drug addiction.
(c) Political division.
(d) Climate change.

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

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

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

5. About how many copies of The Great Gatsby sold in a year by around 1960?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 100,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stars does Green give Canada geese?

2. What did Todd once tell Green about his thoughts on rivers when they sat near one once as teenagers in the review on Academic Decathlon?

3. How many stars does Green give air-conditioning?

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

5. Where did Green once work as a student chaplain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Green like Halley's Comet?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Green credit the Academic Decathlon with in his life?

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

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

9. What does Green think of Canada geese today?

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

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