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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why Everyone Is Worried, The Risk Factor, The War on Drugs, Dying Accents, Inefficiency Report, Why No One Walks, Wide-Open Spaces, Snoopers at Work, Lost at the Movies and Gardening with my Wife.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bryson, why did a store in Michigan win a case brought against them by a customer?
(a) It had a really good lawyer.
(b) The store had a right to hire armed guards
(c) The customer had a history of suing every business in town.
(d) The store had a right to protect itself from shoplifting

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

3. Bryson says that 94% of Americans' trips from home involve the use of something in particular. What is that item?
(a) A credit card.
(b) A snack.
(c) A car.
(d) A cell phone.

4. What does Bryson say about American gardens?
(a) They are mostly lawn.
(b) They are mostly roses.
(c) They are mostly bushes.
(d) They are mostly weeds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Bryson like gardening with his wife?

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

3. What does Bill miss about television in Britain?

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

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

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