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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. How many stars does Green award to the Indianapolis 500?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3 and a half.
2. How many times does Green estimate he has signed his name in his review of Hiroyuki Doi's Circle Drawings?
(a) Over 500,000.
(b) About 10,000.
(c) About 100,000.
(d) About 200,000.
3. Who launched CNN?
(a) Richard Rodark.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Ted Turner.
(d) Rupert Murdoch.
4. In his review of Plague, what years were the worst for that disease in terms of recorded deaths, according to Green?
(a) 1425 - 1428.
(b) 1347 - 1351.
(c) 1400 - 1403.
(d) 1415 - 1417.
5. Who is Indianapolis's favorite literary son, according to Green?
(a) C.S. Lewis.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) George Orwell.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was one of Green's roommates in 2003 who was glued to CNN while America Invaded Iraq?
2. Who does Green identify as one of his very easygoing friends in his review of whispering?
3. How many stars does Green award to Kentucky Bluegrass?
4. Where is CNN headquartered?
5. Who founded a huge grocery store chain, as Green details in the first review of Part III?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Green's boss at Booklist treat him when he had to take time off for mental illness issues?
2. Why does the movie Harvey mean so much to Green?
3. What happened when an American contestant beat a long-reigning Japanese champion in the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog eating contest in 2007?
4. Why does Green remember the exact circumstances under which someone whispered to him in early March of 2020?
5. Why do you think Green tells the story about the cosmonaut Leonov in Part IV?
6. Why does Green think the song "Auld Lang Syne" is popular in Hollywood?
7. Who does Green Google after encountering this person many years earlier, and why did he wait so long to check up on this person?
8. Why can serious pain be isolating, in Green's opinion?
9. What did the Piggly Wiggly almost entirely replace once the stores got up and running?
10. What does Green write about what he calls "attempts to brightside human suffering" (213)?
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