The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Bill Bryson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Bill Bryson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, What, Me Worry?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the Brysons spend a night in a cheap hotel?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Bloomington.

2. What was the repercussion of underground bomb tests?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Sunken mines.
(c) Huge craters.
(d) Destroyed phone lines.

3. What eroded the sense of security for people in the 1950s?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) Soviet long range missiles.
(d) Polio.

4. In what ocean is the Eniwetok atoll located?
(a) Pacific.
(b) Arctic.
(c) Indian.
(d) Atlantic.

5. Who created the first television dinners?
(a) C.A. Swanson.
(b) Lean Cuisine.
(c) Banquet.
(d) Marie Callendar's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The hydrogen bomb could have ignited all the ____________ in the world.

2. In what year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

3. What nationality was the doctor who Bryson's parents took him to?

4. By 1958, the average child in the United States carried ten times more _______________ than the year before.

5. What were household buying more than one of in the 1950s?

(see the answer key)

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