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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Design Flaws, Room Service, Consuming Pleasures, The Numbers Game, Junk-Food Heaven, How to Have Fun at Home, Tales of the North Woods, The Cupholder Revolution, Number, Please and Friendly People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill say is ridiculous about a VCR?
(a) It has no remote.
(b) It is being replaced by a DVD player.
(c) It costs so much.
(d) It can record twelve months in advance.

2. How does Bill know so much about motels?
(a) He used to own one.
(b) He belongs to a motel club.
(c) He has stayed at thousands.
(d) He is reading a book called "The Motel in America."

3. What does Bill say is a new shopping experience for him on his return to America?
(a) Personal service.
(b) Shopping insurance.
(c) Money-back guarantees.
(d) Outlet malls.

4. When Bill phones the computer hotline to ask for help, what information do they ask him for first?
(a) The computer's serial number.
(b) His address.
(c) His date of birth.
(d) His Social Security number.

5. What does Bill say it would take over 31,000 years to do?
(a) Pay off the national debt.
(b) Travel to Mars and back.
(c) Make the tax system fair.
(d) Count a trillion dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill say about American sports teams that would never happen in Britain?

2. What New Hampshire town did the Bryson family settle in during 1995?

3. Bill says the GDP is very hard to measure in modern times. What does GDP stand for?

4. What does Bill find strange about some U.S. commercials?

5. According to Bryson, what is lacking in his New Hampshire town?

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