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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Green when he began participating in the Academic Decathlon in his review on the same subject?
(a) 12.
(b) About 14 or 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 9.

2. What country was the soccer player whose performance Green reviews in this section originally from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Spain.

3. Who was the hunting guide who wounded the bear in 1902 that indirectly gave rise to the name "Teddy Bear"?
(a) Duncan Henry.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Holt Collier.
(d) Randall Winston.

4. Who is Green's brother that he often works with?
(a) Michael.
(b) Jim.
(c) John.
(d) Hank.

5. Who began sending copies of The Great Gatsby to troops overseas in 1942?
(a) The Smock Foundation.
(b) The American Library Association.
(c) The U.S. Council on Books in Wartime.
(d) The Associated Press.

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

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

8. About how long did it take Earth to go from single-celled to multicellular life?
(a) One million years.
(b) Five hundred thousand years.
(c) One billion years.
(d) Three billion years.

9. Why did Green spend so much time at the Hall of Presidents as a teenager?
(a) He was working on a book about one president in particular.
(b) It had the best air-conditioning and he did not like the rest of Disney World.
(c) He liked watching all the classes come through there.
(d) He loved American history.

10. What were some of the subjects of the Lascaux Cave Paintings?
(a) Celestial bodies.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Waterways.
(d) Animals.

11. Whose life and death coincided roughly with appearances of Halley's Comet?
(a) Winston Churchill's.
(b) Cleopatra's.
(c) Mark Twain's.
(d) Teddy Roosevelt's.

12. What class of drugs are usually used to treat Staphylococcus infections?
(a) Beta blockers.
(b) Anti-virals.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Narcotics.

13. About how many copies of The Great Gatsby sell in a typical year in at the time of this book's publication in 2021?
(a) 1,000,000.
(b) 8,000,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 500,000.

14. What movie's opening sequence does Green improbably say is one of the best film moments of all time?
(a) Indiana Jones.
(b) Star Wars.
(c) Penguins of Madagascar.
(d) Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

15. What country are the Lascaux Cave Paintings in?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) United Kingdom.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the top of the 10 things that Green said scared him on the podcast "10 Things That Scare Me"?

2. What group did Green first participate in on the internet when he first began using it in his review of the internet in this section?

3. What were the last words Maurice Sendak ever said in an interview?

4. When was the Tyrannosaurus rex first named?

5. Where was the planetarium Green visited when he was 9 or 10?

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