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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. Who launched CNN?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Richard Rodark.
(c) Rupert Murdoch.
(d) Ted Turner.

2. Who is Green's best friend, as he describes in the Indianapolis 500 review?
(a) Amy Krouse.
(b) Ben Henry.
(c) Sarah Yurick.
(d) Chris Waters.

3. Who was one of Green's roommates in 2003 who was glued to CNN while America Invaded Iraq?
(a) Ursula.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Hassan.
(d) Jennifer.

4. What does Green find in the section on Googling strangers when he finally Googles a very sick child he met years earlier?
(a) He can not find the child online.
(b) The child died.
(c) He can only find the child's twin brother.
(d) The child survived.

5. How many stars does Green award to the serious illness he suffered from and that he writes about in 2014?
(a) 2 and a half stars.
(b) 2 stars.
(c) 1 and a half stars.
(d) 1 star.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stars in the movie Harvey?

2. What does Green say his mother often told him when he was a kid in his review on Googling Strangers?

3. Where did Green's grandfather work, as he writes in the first review of Part III?

4. What did Vince Lombardi famously say about winning in Green's section on the yips?

5. Why does Green think Auld Lang Syne is so popular in movies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one repetitive activity that Green has found gives him some peace when he is feeling stressed that he describes in Part IV?

2. What was the original name of Elizabeth Magie's game that someone else essentially stole the idea for Monopoly from?

3. What does Green write about what he calls "attempts to brightside human suffering" (213)?

4. Why did Green dislike Indianapolis when he first moved back there from the city?

5. Why did Green and his wife Sarah visit the Bonneville Salt Flats?

6. How does Green describe the "yips"?

7. What idea did Clarence Saunders have after losing his fortune following the creation of Piggly Wiggly that failed to take off?

8. Why does Green think the song "Auld Lang Syne" is popular in Hollywood?

9. What did the Piggly Wiggly almost entirely replace once the stores got up and running?

10. Why does Green remember the exact circumstances under which someone whispered to him in early March of 2020?

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