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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 tell the reader about crime in New Hampshire?
(a) There is no death penalty.
(b) There were only four murders in the last reporting year.
(c) Serious crime is on the increase.
(d) Petty crime is a problem in the rural areas.
2. What does Bill say it would take over 31,000 years to do?
(a) Travel to Mars and back.
(b) Count a trillion dollars.
(c) Pay off the national debt.
(d) Make the tax system fair.
3. When Bill phones the computer hotline to ask for help, what information do they ask him for first?
(a) His date of birth.
(b) His Social Security number.
(c) The computer's serial number.
(d) His address.
4. In the twenty years since Bryson left the United States, by how much have car numbers, roads, and mileage increased?
(a) By half.
(b) By two times.
(c) By 10%.
(d) By 100%.
5. What does Bill end up doing with all the food he buys at the supermarket?
(a) He eats his way through it and hates it.
(b) He eats his way through it and buys more.
(c) He throws half of it out.
(d) He makes his kids eat it all.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Bryson begin "Tales of the North Woods?"
2. What does Bill find to be a difficult adjustment for him when he returns to the U.S.?
3. What does Bill say is a strange feature of their car?
4. In "The Numbers Game," what does Bill say is beyond the comprehension of everyone?
5. What part of the house does Bill regard as delightful and pretty much the same in every American household?
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