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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 55 - 112, "Canada Geese" to "Penguins of Madagascar").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who urges Green to first participate in the Academic Decathlon?
(a) His favorite teacher.
(b) His best friend and roommate, Todd.
(c) His brother Hank.
(d) His parents.

2. How does Green remember the smell of rain from his childhood?
(a) As being anxiety-inducing.
(b) As being more acidic than it is now.
(c) As being like grass.
(d) As being like fertilizer.

3. Who discovered Staphylococcus?
(a) James Payne.
(b) Watson Henry.
(c) Joseph Lister.
(d) Alexander Ogston.

4. What does Green say the teddy bear is a reminder of?
(a) The wonders of childhood.
(b) The comfort of a parent's gift on Christmas morning.
(c) The ways in which misconceptions are perpetuated.
(d) The astonishing power of contemporary humanity.

5. Who were the original makers of the first teddy bear, according to Green?
(a) Henderson Toy company.
(b) Morris and Rose Mitchom.
(c) The Wright Brothers.
(d) Chris and Angstron Harlow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author of The Great Gatsby think of some of its earliest reviews?

2. What did a college girlfriend of Green's once tell him her biggest fear was?

3. What is one main reason for the large-scale shift in human geography, according to Green?

4. What were some of the subjects of the Lascaux Cave Paintings?

5. What has happened to the weather over the last 100 years or so, as Green mentions in his essay on Air-Conditioning?

(see the answer key)

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