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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 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.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bryson hate about Christmas?
(a) The expense.
(b) The music.
(c) Getting the decorations out of the attic.
(d) Buying gifts.

2. When looking for a place to live in the United States, what was the only thing Bryson liked about Adams, Massachusetts?
(a) It had a wonderful old-fashioned diner.
(b) The library.
(c) All the houses were built before 1950.
(d) The people there.

3. What part of the house does Bill regard as delightful and pretty much the same in every American household?
(a) The basement.
(b) The attic.
(c) The family room.
(d) The laundry room.

4. What does Mrs. Bryson tell her husband about Maggie that cheers him up?
(a) Maggie had made herself sick on vegetarian stew.
(b) Maggie dyed her hair, and it turned green.
(c) Maggie had to have her jaw wired shut for dental work.
(d) Maggie had moved to Boston.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Bryson like to go in the summer that Bill can definitely live without?

2. In "Room Service," what does Bill say the Motel Inn in California is famous for?

3. What animal got trapped in the Bryson house soon after the family moved in?

4. What does Bill say is a strange feature of their car?

5. In regards to his son's university education, what is Bryson so shocked about?

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