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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Green write about often playing video games with as an adult?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His brother.
(c) His wife.
(d) His son.

2. How does Green try to solve his problem with the creature eating his garden?
(a) He uses sonic devices to keep the creature away.
(b) He kills the creature.
(c) He plants a small garden just for the creature to eat.
(d) He traps the creature and moves it to a different location.

3. What does Green says he does almost every day in the review on Googling strangers?
(a) Donate to charities.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Google strangers.
(d) Read to his children.

4. Where did Green's grandfather work, as he writes in the first review of Part III?
(a) Harper Street.
(b) Piggy Wiggly.
(c) Uniroyal.
(d) Haines.

5. Who does Green identify as one of his very easygoing friends in his review of whispering?
(a) Amy.
(b) Fred.
(c) Alex.
(d) Jenny.

6. What serious illness did Green contract in 2014?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Viral Meningitis.
(c) A severe form of Influenza.
(d) Framingham Disease.

7. What other board game does playing Monopoly sometimes make Green think about?
(a) Sorry!
(b) Sequence.
(c) Universal Paperclips.
(d) Settlers of Catan.

8. What was the most serious symptom Green describes from his serious illness in Part IV?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Muscle pains.
(c) Bone pain.
(d) A terrible headache.

9. How many stars does Green award to Kentucky Bluegrass?
(a) 3 and a half.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

10. How many stars does Green award to the serious illness he suffered from and that he writes about in 2014?
(a) 2 and a half stars.
(b) 2 stars.
(c) 1 and a half stars.
(d) 1 star.

11. How many stars does Green give to the video game he reviews in Part IV?
(a) 4.
(b) 4 and a half.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

12. Who is most often credited with creating Monopoly?
(a) John Rockefeller.
(b) Henry Ford.
(c) Charles Darrow.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

13. How many stars does Green award to the Bonneville Salt Flats?
(a) 2.
(b) 3 and a half.
(c) 4.
(d) 1 and a half.

14. What did Coney Island used to be the capital of, according to Green?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Skating.
(d) Hucksters.

15. 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) Win or lose, it's how you play.
(c) Winning only means something to the winner.
(d) Try again if you don't win the first time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stars in the movie Harvey?

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

3. How many stars does Green award to wintry mix?

4. In the section on Auld Lang Syne, what does Green identify as one of the strangest and most beautiful moments in world history?

5. What did self-service grocery stores fuel the rise of?

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