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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Foreword to Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the cause of Johnny's debilitating illness during his teen years?
(a) A brain tumor.
(b) Autism.
(c) Emphysema.
(d) Lukemia.

2. When Johnny was put in the infirmary for a stiff neck in Chapter 1, there was what kind of scare at the school?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Polio.

3. Johnny came home for Spring Holiday in March of what year when his parents took him on several outings in Chapter 1?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1947.

4. When Johnny's first surgery was over, his parents were informed that the tumor was the size of what?
(a) A walnut.
(b) A lemon.
(c) A pea.
(d) An orange.

5. What refers to the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil?
(a) Hydroponics.
(b) Agroponics.
(c) Helioponics.
(d) Aeroponics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair did Johnny have as a child?

2. Where was Johnny conceived?

3. What color were Johnny's eyes?

4. Where did John Gunther grow up?

5. What refers to the science that deals with the dynamics and physical history of the earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the physical, chemical, and biological changes that the earth has undergone or is undergoing?

(see the answer key)

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