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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. In "How to Have Fun at Home," why does Bill think having your groceries bagged for you is not so great?
(a) He has to tip the bagger.
(b) He has to make conversation with the bagger.
(c) It makes him feel lazy.
(d) It doesn't buy him any quality time.

2. What New Hampshire town did the Bryson family settle in during 1995?
(a) Concord.
(b) Hanover.
(c) Colebrook.
(d) Manchester.

3. What does Bill say about the way people of the world eat?
(a) Most people don't eat enough.
(b) We eat a huge variety of things.
(c) There are thousands of foods but only a few are eaten a lot.
(d) Most people eat too much.

4. What does Bill hate about flying now that he is back in the U.S.?
(a) The price of tickets.
(b) No meals are served.
(c) Having to show photo identification at the airport.
(d) The snacks are terrible.

5. How does Bryson begin "Tales of the North Woods?"
(a) He talks about using a snowmobile.
(b) He talks about shoveling snow.
(c) He talks about the town that disappeared, and no one has found it.
(d) He talks about a college student who left a party and died in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bill feel when he goes to a barbershop?

3. Bryson says that 94% of Americans' trips from home involve the use of something in particular. What is that item?

4. What is one activity that Bill is happy to return to in America?

5. What does Bill say it would take over 31,000 years to do?

(see the answer key)

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