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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Coming Home, Mail Call, Drug Culture, What's Cooking?, Well, Doctor, I was Just Trying to Lie Down..., Rule Number 1: Follow All Rules, Take Me Out to the Ballpark, Help!, A Visit to the Barbershop and On the Hotline.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill say is a big improvement in America concerning business phone numbers?
(a) The 1-800 numbers are easy to remember.
(b) They are preprogrammed on everyone's phone.
(c) Business calls cannot be made into people's homes.
(d) They are only four-digits.

2. What does Bill say about the way people of the world eat?
(a) We eat a huge variety of things.
(b) Most people don't eat enough.
(c) Most people eat too much.
(d) There are thousands of foods but only a few are eaten a lot.

3. What does Bill find to be a difficult adjustment for him when he returns to the U.S.?
(a) He has forgotten American English.
(b) He cannot find what he wants in the stores.
(c) He finds it very noisy.
(d) He left as a young man and came back middle-aged.

4. What is Bill's wife's reaction to his new American haircut?
(a) She says she wants to send their sons there, too.
(b) She bursts into tears.
(c) She loves it.
(d) She says he must have said something to upset the barber.

5. When Bill phones the computer hotline to ask for help, what information do they ask him for first?
(a) The computer's serial number.
(b) His Social Security number.
(c) His date of birth.
(d) His address.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bill, what product do Americans regard much differently than the British?

2. What event in America is starting up as Bill begins writing his columns for his British audience?

3. What does Bill hate about flying now that he is back in the U.S.?

4. What British sport does Bill find dull but restful?

5. Bill is amazed that thousands of Americans end up in the emergency rooms every year from using certain things. What are they?

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