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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, School Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What craft looked like fun at first but ended up being messy and frustrating?
(a) Creepy Crawlers.
(b) Play-Doh.
(c) Building models.
(d) Paint by Numbers.

2. What did Bryson say was a myth about childhood?
(a) Any Christmas gift is the best.
(b) Every day is an adventure.
(c) Every birthday is happy.
(d) Time goes by fast.

3. How many children under the age of 12 were living in the mid-1950s in America?
(a) 123 million.
(b) 903,000.
(c) 32 million.
(d) 7 million.

4. By 1958, the average child in the United States carried ten times more _______________ than the year before.
(a) uranium.
(b) hydrogen.
(c) copper.
(d) strontium.

5. The hydrogen bomb could have ignited all the ____________ in the world.
(a) plutonium.
(b) helium.
(c) carbon dioxide.
(d) oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the elementary school students eat lunch?

2. What was another fear for people in the 1950s?

3. Why did Bryson and his friends play inside most of the time?

4. What were Bryson's favorite books?

5. In what city did Bryson's mother's relatives live?

(see the answer key)

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