I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away Quiz

Bill Bryson

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why doesn't Bryson like gardening with his wife? (from Why Everyone Is Worried, The Risk Factor, The War on Drugs, Dying Accents, Inefficiency Report, Why No One Walks, Wide-Open Spaces, Snoopers at Work, Lost at the Movies and Gardening with my Wife)

He has to do all the work.

She is English and thus an expert gardener.

She screams if she sees any insects.

She expects him to garden for hours at a time.

2.

How many "new" consumer products does Bryson say are launched every year in the United States? (from The Great Indoors, Death Watch, In Praise of Diners, Shopping Madness, The Fat of the Land, Your New Computer, How to Rent a Car, The Wasteland, The Flying Nightmare and Enough Already)

2 million.

25,000.

250,000.

2,000.

3.

In "The Best American Holiday," what does Bryson say about his mother? (from Ah, Summer!, A Day at the Seaside, On Losing a Son, Highway Diversions, Fall in New England, The Best American Holiday, Deck the Halls, Fun in the Snow, The Mysteries of Christmas, Life in a Cold Climate)

Once a year, for Thanksgiving, she'd make a great meal.

She had Thanksgiving catered.

She was a great cook.

She tried, but the Thanksgiving meal was always a failure.

4.

What word associated with Christmas does Bryson wonder about at the beginning of "The Mysteries of Christmas"? (from Ah, Summer!, A Day at the Seaside, On Losing a Son, Highway Diversions, Fall in New England, The Best American Holiday, Deck the Halls, Fun in the Snow, The Mysteries of Christmas, Life in a Cold Climate)

Noel.

Merry.

Yule.

A-wassailing.

5.

What does the author say is his son's reaction to Bryson giving the address for the graduating class at Kimball Union Academy? (from At a Loss, Old News, Rules for Living, Our Town, Word Play, Last Night on the Titanic, Property News, Life's Technicalities, An Address and Coming Home: Part II)

He cannot believe they asked his father to do it.

He thinks it might work if his father lets him write the speech.

He is incredibly proud.

He is incredibly embarrassed.

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