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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. What is the first item or idea in this book that Green awards five stars to?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Sunsets.
(c) The internet.
(d) The Human Capacity for Wonder.

2. How many Canada Geese are estimated to be in the world today?
(a) 8 million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 4 - 6 million.
(d) 1 million.

3. Where did Green once work as a student chaplain?
(a) A school.
(b) A bank.
(c) A military base.
(d) A children's hospital.

4. Who wrote the book The Great Gatsby?
(a) C.S. Lewis.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

5. What did a 2004 Cornell study find affected workplace productivity, as Green explains it in the section on air-conditioning?
(a) How many books were in the office.
(b) Whether or not there were snacks available.
(c) How much caffeine workers consumed.
(d) Office temperature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Green and his friends use to connote artificiality during his teenage years?

2. How old was Green when he began participating in the Academic Decathlon in his review on the same subject?

3. Which kind of organisms tend to have shorter temporal ranges than simple ones?

4. Who is Green's brother that he often works with?

5. About how many copies of The Great Gatsby sold in a year by around 1960?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Green like Halley's Comet?

2. What habit did Green eventually replace smoking with that he feels is much less harmful?

3. What difficulties did Green struggle with as an adolescent?

4. How did Jerzy Dudek achieve his legendary goal-saving in a 2005 soccer match, according to Green?

5. In the Introduction, what does Green say this book started life as?

6. What did F. Scott Fitzgerald think of the reviews of his book The Great Gatsby?

7. 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?

8. What is one of the big mysteries around Halley's Comet, according to Green?

9. What particular aspect of human existence does Green associate sunsets with that he says is hard to admit and that scares him?

10. What is the paradox of air-conditioning, according to Green?

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