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

2. Who liked to harass smaller children in town?
(a) The Knapke twins.
(b) The Butter boys.
(c) The Rogers boys.
(d) The Miller brothers.

3. What was the main street of Bryson's hometown?
(a) Main Street.
(b) Grand Avenue.
(c) Commerce Street.
(d) Wayne Avenue.

4. What unusual physical characteristic did Bryson's uncle have?
(a) One blue eye and one green eye.
(b) A peg leg.
(c) A streak of white hair in his black hair.
(d) A hole in his throat.

5. Where did the Brysons spend Christmas of 1960?
(a) Florida.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Bryson's friend who lived across the alley and had good toys?

2. What did Bryson and his friends make a little neighborhood kid eat once as an experiment?

3. In what year was Bryson born?

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

5. What super power did the Thunderbolt Kid use primarily?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Bryson's mother's main personality quirk?

2. What was the ritual Bryson had with his mother every Friday evening?

3. What businesses came about as the result of more cars in America?

4. What sorts of things did Bryson and other kids do to help pass the long days?

5. Describe a typical experience of Bryson's family stopping to see his mother's family every time they went on vacation.

6. What were the results of the hydrogen bombs dropped by the United States in 1952 and 1954?

7. What were the results on children of the U.S. bomb testings and what happened when the tests were moved underground?

8. What were some of the ways that boys could see glimpses of naked women?

9. How many siblings did Bryson have?

10. How did television change life for people in the 1950s?

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