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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What original form did this book, The Anthropocene Reviewed, take?
2. What items did Green find particularly comforting to look over when he was being bullied at school as a child?
3. What does Green identify as probably the biggest shared challenge facing Twenty-first Century humans in the section on air-conditioning?
4. About how long did it take Earth to go from single-celled to multicellular life?
5. Which kind of organisms tend to have shorter temporal ranges than simple ones?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did F. Scott Fitzgerald think of the reviews of his book The Great Gatsby?
2. Why does Green like Halley's Comet?
3. What misconception about lemmings does Green discuss in the essay "Penguins of Madagascar"?
4. In the Introduction, what does Green say this book started life as?
5. What does Green say would have happened to him before about 1940 if he had gotten the same Staph infection he got some years ago?
6. What are Green's main memories of Scratch 'n' Sniff stickers from his childhood?
7. Why does Green say he often consults his brother Hank when something is bothering him?
8. What genre does Green say he thinks his reviews share a lot in common with?
9. What misconceptions does Green say most people have about velociraptors?
10. What is one of the big mysteries around Halley's Comet, according to Green?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does greed and avarice derail some potentially positive inventions and ideas in some of Green's essay topics throughout the collection? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How does Green explain his choice to choose F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby as a starting point to discuss the human capacity for wonder? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
How does Green describe his motivation for writing this collection to the reader, and what form did his reviews originally take? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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