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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 say is a strange feature of their car?
(a) It has no cup holders.
(b) The steering wheel is heated.
(c) There is an indentation on the dashboard with no obvious use.
(d) It dispenses ice.

2. What does Bill find in the bottom of his refrigerator, a left over from his junk-food shopping with his wife?
(a) Lettuce.
(b) Toaster tarts.
(c) Popsicles.
(d) Breakfast pizza.

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

4. How many children do the Brysons have?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. What is Bill's wife's reaction to his new American haircut?
(a) She says she wants to send their sons there, too.
(b) She says he must have said something to upset the barber.
(c) She bursts into tears.
(d) She loves it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill say that he has to remember about going into restaurants?

2. According to Bill, which offense do the British commit that he takes offense to?

3. What does Bryson think is sad about how things are changing in modern Vermont?

4. In "Junk-Food Heaven," according to Bill, what kind of food shopper is his wife?

5. Why did Bill decide to write "Friendly People?"

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