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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many stars does Green give to the Academic Decathlon?
(a) 3.
(b) 4 and a half.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.
2. What is one main reason for the large-scale shift in human geography, according to Green?
(a) Animal migration.
(b) Where churches are built.
(c) Air-conditioning.
(d) Financial markets.
3. What did a college girlfriend of Green's once tell him her biggest fear was?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Failure.
(c) Geese.
(d) Death.
4. 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) 2,000,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 8,000,000.
5. How many stars does Green give the teddy bear?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) Two and a half.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who discovered Staphylococcus?
2. How many stars does green award to the Hall of Presidents?
3. What book and movie popularized but also led to misconceptions about velociraptors?
4. What is the first item or idea in this book that Green awards five stars to?
5. Whose name is the phrase "Teddy Bear" derived from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Green's brother Hank tell him about the coronavirus pandemic that unnerves Green?
2. What does Green credit the Academic Decathlon with in his life?
3. What does Green say would have happened to him before about 1940 if he had gotten the same Staph infection he got some years ago?
4. When Green first started using the internet as an adolescent, how did he feel about it?
5. How did Jerzy Dudek achieve his legendary goal-saving in a 2005 soccer match, according to Green?
6. What did F. Scott Fitzgerald think of the reviews of his book The Great Gatsby?
7. How does air-conditioning highlight matters of wealth and climate inequality?
8. What misconception about lemmings does Green discuss in the essay "Penguins of Madagascar"?
9. Why does Green like Halley's Comet?
10. What difficulties did Green struggle with as an adolescent?
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