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

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

Bill Bryson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 176 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 British sport does Bill find dull but restful?
(a) Polo.
(b) Rounders.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Soccer.

2. What does Bill say about his hair?
(a) He is losing it quickly.
(b) He has "very happy" hair.
(c) He wants to color the gray.
(d) He always covers it with a hat.

3. What does Bill say about the barber in his new hometown?
(a) He is fresh out of barber school and eager to try new things.
(b) He reads more books than Bill does.
(c) He could talk the hind leg off a donkey.
(d) He only seems to know hairstyles from the 1950's.

4. How does Bill feel when he goes to a barbershop?
(a) He can get caught up on his reading.
(b) Helpless and insecure.
(c) Like he is going to empty his wallet.
(d) Happy tot talk to someone with sense.

5. Bill is amazed that thousands of Americans end up in the emergency rooms every year from using certain things. What are they?
(a) Guns.
(b) Snow blowers.
(c) Common household items.
(d) Cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bill prefer the post offices in the U.S. to the ones in Britain?

2. What does Bill say that he has to remember about going into restaurants?

3. What does Bill say about the way people of the world eat?

4. What product first reveals the popularity of toll-free hotline phone numbers to Bill?

5. When Bill phones the computer hotline to ask for help, what information do they ask him for first?

(see the answer key)

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