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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 114 - 168, "Piggly Wiggly" to "Kentucky Bluegrass").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word did Green and his friends use to connote artificiality during his teenage years?
(a) Lame.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Hard.
(d) Frightful.

2. What publication did Green write some of his earliest reviews for?
(a) Booklist.
(b) The Bookster.
(c) Napster.
(d) Publisher's Weekly.

3. Which poet does Green excerpt a poem from in his review on sunsets?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

4. What has happened to the weather over the last 100 years or so, as Green mentions in his essay on Air-Conditioning?
(a) He does not mention the weather in this section.
(b) It has gotten hotter.
(c) It has stayed the same.
(d) It has gotten colder.

5. What did Vince Lombardi famously say about winning in Green's section on the yips?
(a) Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
(b) Try again if you don't win the first time.
(c) Winning only means something to the winner.
(d) Win or lose, it's how you play.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stars in the movie Harvey?

2. Who were the original makers of the first teddy bear, according to Green?

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

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

5. Where did Green grow up?

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