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Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson
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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. In "Highway Diversions," how does Bryson like to pass the time when he is driving on the highway?
(a) By making up songs about the towns they pass.
(b) By counting the red cars.
(c) By yelling at other drivers.
(d) By reading the slogans on license plates.

2. What was the "Millennium Bug" about, in regards to computers?
(a) It was an extremely destructive virus.
(b) No royalties would be paid to computer developers after that date.
(c) It was a new very tiny computer.
(d) At midnight on January 1, 2000 all computers might shut down.

3. How was the first "drive-in" movie shown in New Jersey in the 1930's?
(a) In a tennis court.
(b) In a deserted baseball park.
(c) On Richard Hollingshead's garage door.
(d) On a school's outside wall.

4. Which American tourist attraction does Bryson describe as a "Total Indoor Environment"?
(a) Disney World.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) Opryland.
(d) Yellowstone Park.

5. Bryson says there are three types of stores. The first is where you cannot get anyone to help you, and the second is full of clerks who will not leave you alone. What does he say about the third type?
(a) No matter what you ask about, they say it's in "aisle seven."
(b) When you ask about something, the clerk has to ask the manager, who is never around.
(c) All the clerks have just started working there and do not know a thing.
(d) The clerks spend all their time talking to each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bryson have to buy a whole new computer and fax system when he returns to the United States?

2. In "A Slight Inconvenience," what does Bryson say about drive-through windows in restaurants?

3. According to Bryson, what makes up for the long New England winters?

4. In "Death Watch," what does Bryson dislike because they are "cold and bouncy and make odd noises."?

5. What does Bryson say about the New England summers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Bryson looks at obesity in "The Fat of the Land." Name three statistics he mentions in relation to obesity.

2. In "In Praise of Diners," Bryson talks about an old American institution that has almost disappeared, the diner restaurant. List at least three things he tells the readers about diners.

3. In "Ah, Summer!" what does Bryson say he likes about summers in New Hampshire? How does he compare them to summers in Iowa?

4. In "Shopping Madness," Bryson says there is a discipline called "retail anthropology." What is it ? What are some of the things it studies?

5. What does Bryson tell the reader about drive-in movies in "At the Drive-In"?

6. Bryson titled "The Waste Generation". Give three examples of why he thinks the generation of Americans in the 1990s is a wasteful one.

7. "Highway Diversions" is Bryson's look at highway travel, which he says is very dull. How does he compare modern highway travel to the highway travel of his youth?

8. In "Lost in Cyberland," what kind of adventures does Bryson have with technology in America?

9. In "A Day at the Seaside," what does Mrs. Bryson suggest the family do? How does Bill react to this?

10. In "Life's Mysteries," Bryson lists a very large number of things that he doesn't understand. What are four of these things?

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