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

2. What part of the house does Bill regard as delightful and pretty much the same in every American household?
(a) The laundry room.
(b) The family room.
(c) The basement.
(d) The attic.

3. What product first reveals the popularity of toll-free hotline phone numbers to Bill?
(a) Soda.
(b) Dental floss.
(c) Toothpaste.
(d) Milk.

4. In "The Numbers Game," what does Bill say is beyond the comprehension of everyone?
(a) How tax money is spent.
(b) How much money huge sums really represent.
(c) How the government manages to get anything done.
(d) Why government workers get so many holidays.

5. How does Bill feel when he goes to a barbershop?
(a) He can get caught up on his reading.
(b) Happy tot talk to someone with sense.
(c) Helpless and insecure.
(d) Like he is going to empty his wallet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bill phones the computer hotline to ask for help, what information do they ask him for first?

2. How does Bill know so much about motels?

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

4. Where do Bill and his wife go to celebrate their anniversary?

5. What does Bill say is a new shopping experience for him on his return to America?

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