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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 event in America is starting up as Bill begins writing his columns for his British audience?
(a) The Stanley Cup Play-Offs.
(b) A Presidential Election Campaign.
(c) The World Series.
(d) The Summer Olympics.

2. Why does Bill feel going to a restaurant is a discouraging experience?
(a) He's a picky eater.
(b) He hates the high prices.
(c) He's a vegan.
(d) He manages to antagonize the waitress.

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

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

5. What does Bill hate about flying now that he is back in the U.S.?
(a) The price of tickets.
(b) The snacks are terrible.
(c) No meals are served.
(d) Having to show photo identification at the airport.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bill feel when he goes to a barbershop?

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

3. What does Bill find strange about some U.S. commercials?

4. What does Bill like about having a college as part of he town he lives in?

5. What does Bill Bryson like about his new home town?

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