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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. Why did Bill decide to write "Friendly People?"
(a) Because his wife told him all he did was complain in his columns.
(b) Because he had to make good on a bet.
(c) Because he thought it would be funny.
(d) Because his editor wanted him to.

2. 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 Summer Olympics.
(d) The World Series.

3. How does Bryson begin "Tales of the North Woods?"
(a) He talks about using a snowmobile.
(b) He talks about the town that disappeared, and no one has found it.
(c) He talks about a college student who left a party and died in the woods.
(d) He talks about shoveling snow.

4. 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.

5. In "Consuming Pleasures," what does Bill say about shopping in America?
(a) It is a boring and tedious activity.
(b) There is underproduction of goods.
(c) You can buy almost anything.
(d) Everything must be bought in person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill hate about flying now that he is back in the U.S.?

2. What does Bill say is a strange feature of their car?

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

4. What does Bill tell the reader about crime in New Hampshire?

5. What is one way Bryson says New Hampshire residents might die that would not happen in Britain?

(see the answer key)

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