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

2. What does Bill say that he has to remember about going into restaurants?
(a) He has to remove his baseball cap.
(b) To wait to be seated.
(c) You need to show identification.
(d) They don't sell alcoholic drinks in the local eateries.

3. Why does Bill feel going to a restaurant is a discouraging experience?
(a) He's a picky eater.
(b) He's a vegan.
(c) He hates the high prices.
(d) He manages to antagonize the waitress.

4. After living in Britain for twenty years, what does Bill find refreshingly different about the United States?
(a) The weather.
(b) The informality.
(c) The government.
(d) The fashions.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Bill's wife's reaction to his new American haircut?

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

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

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

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