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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. When did the famous Coney Island hot dog eating contest begin?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1970.
2. How many stars does Green award to wintry mix?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.
3. What story does Green share with the reader about his hospital chaplaincy in the section on Googling strangers?
(a) Meeting a child suffering from a rare genetic disease.
(b) Meeting a child with a brain tumor.
(c) Meeting a child who was severely burned, and his parents.
(d) Meeting a child with bone cancer.
4. How many stars does Green award to the Indianapolis 500?
(a) 2.
(b) 3 and a half.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.
5. What does Green say his mother often told him when he was a kid in his review on Googling Strangers?
(a) You will know what you want to do when the time is right.
(b) You can only love one person very well.
(c) Everyone has a gift inside them.
(d) Soldier on.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who launched CNN?
2. How does Green usually get to the Indianapolis 500?
3. Why did Green's roommate laugh at the Arabic graffiti in the background of a news report on CNN in 2003 that they watched together?
4. Which poet does Green cite in his review on Harvey?
5. What did self-service grocery stores fuel the rise of?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why can serious pain be isolating, in Green's opinion?
2. What is one repetitive activity that Green has found gives him some peace when he is feeling stressed that he describes in Part IV?
3. How does Green describe the "yips"?
4. What did the Piggly Wiggly almost entirely replace once the stores got up and running?
5. What does Green think is one of the most terrible similarities between the Plague and the novel coronavirus?
6. Why does Green remember the exact circumstances under which someone whispered to him in early March of 2020?
7. Why did Green and his wife Sarah visit the Bonneville Salt Flats?
8. What was the original name of Elizabeth Magie's game that someone else essentially stole the idea for Monopoly from?
9. Why does Green have fond memories of going to the Indianapolis 500?
10. Why does Green think Super Mario Kart is a better game than Monopoly?
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