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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 does Bill end up doing with all the food he buys at the supermarket?
(a) He eats his way through it and buys more.
(b) He makes his kids eat it all.
(c) He eats his way through it and hates it.
(d) He throws half of it out.

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

3. What does Bill Bryson like about his new home town?
(a) It has a great college.
(b) It is a suburb.
(c) It has great shopping.
(d) It is close to Boston.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Bill, what is the outstanding quality of Americans?

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

4. How does Bill explain the popularity of motel chains in America?

5. What is Bill's wife's reaction to his new American haircut?

(see the answer key)

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