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

2. What does Bill say it would take over 31,000 years to do?
(a) Count a trillion dollars.
(b) Travel to Mars and back.
(c) Pay off the national debt.
(d) Make the tax system fair.

3. What does Bill say about the way people of the world eat?
(a) There are thousands of foods but only a few are eaten a lot.
(b) We eat a huge variety of things.
(c) Most people eat too much.
(d) Most people don't eat enough.

4. According to Bill, what is the outstanding quality of Americans?
(a) Their friendliness.
(b) Their ambition.
(c) Their business sense.
(d) Their sense of humor.

5. What does Bill like about having a college as part of he town he lives in?
(a) His kids can go there for free.
(b) He and his family can use their facilities.
(c) It has snob appeal.
(d) It keeps the taxes down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill say is a big improvement in America concerning business phone numbers?

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

3. What does Bill say is a new shopping experience for him on his return to America?

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

5. Where do Bill and his wife go to celebrate their anniversary?

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