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

2. What does Bill say about American sports teams that would never happen in Britain?
(a) A team can move its franchise to a new city.
(b) The players play for small salaries.
(c) The players are all polite.
(d) The teams have cheerleaders.

3. 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 perfect at everything he does.
(d) He is absentminded.

4. How does Bill know so much about motels?
(a) He belongs to a motel club.
(b) He has stayed at thousands.
(c) He used to own one.
(d) He is reading a book called "The Motel in America."

5. What particular product in American supermarkets fascinates Bill?
(a) Meat.
(b) Pet food.
(c) Cereal.
(d) Laundry soap.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bill tell the reader about crime in New Hampshire?

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

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

5. What New Hampshire town did the Bryson family settle in during 1995?

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