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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. According to Bryson, what did people in the past do when they flew?
(a) Got sick a lot.
(b) Ate and drank through the whole flight.
(c) Dressed up for it.
(d) Bought insurance for every flight.

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

3. What does Bryson say about the long trip and back to take his son to college?
(a) Travelling by car is one of his favorite things.
(b) Travelling on American highways is dull.
(c) It was sad.
(d) It was quick.

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

5. Bill says the GDP is very hard to measure in modern times. What does GDP stand for?
(a) Grand Divisible Principles.
(b) Grand Domestic Product.
(c) Gross Domestic Product.
(d) Gross Definitive Product.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bryson astonished to find on his plane on a flight from Boston to Denver?

2. What does Bill find in the bottom of his refrigerator, a left over from his junk-food shopping with his wife?

3. Bryson says that 94% of Americans' trips from home involve the use of something in particular. What is that item?

4. In "The Flying Nightmare," what job does Bryson say his father had?

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

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