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

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

3. In "How to Have Fun at Home," why does Bill think having your groceries bagged for you is not so great?
(a) He has to tip the bagger.
(b) It doesn't buy him any quality time.
(c) He has to make conversation with the bagger.
(d) It makes him feel lazy.

4. What does Bill discuss at the beginning of his essay on design flaws?
(a) His son's jeans.
(b) His son's running shoes.
(c) His wife's clothing.
(d) His daughter's jewelry.

5. In "Wide-Open Spaces," according to Bryson, who was an idiot?
(a) Samuel de Champlain.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) Daniel Boone.
(d) Monty Hall.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "Consuming Pleasures," what does Bill say about shopping in America?

4. How does Bryson begin "Tales of the North Woods?"

5. What does Bill say about American sports teams that would never happen in Britain?

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