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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Design Flaws, Room Service, Consuming Pleasures, The Numbers Game, Junk-Food Heaven, How to Have Fun at Home, Tales of the North Woods, The Cupholder Revolution, Number, Please and Friendly People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trait does Bill admit that he has in regards to simple everyday activities?
(a) He is clumsy.
(b) He never forgets anything.
(c) He is absentminded.
(d) He is perfect at everything he does.

2. After living in Britain for twenty years, what does Bill find refreshingly different about the United States?
(a) The informality.
(b) The fashions.
(c) The government.
(d) The weather.

3. Where do Bill and his wife go to celebrate their anniversary?
(a) To a fancy restaurant in Vermont.
(b) To an expensive inn in Massachusetts.
(c) To a ski resort in Quebec.
(d) To a spa in Connecticut.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bill say about the barber in his new hometown?

3. What does Bill say it would take over 31,000 years to do?

4. What does Bill find to be a difficult adjustment for him when he returns to the U.S.?

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

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