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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. In "The Numbers Game," what does Bill say is beyond the comprehension of everyone?
(a) Why government workers get so many holidays.
(b) How much money huge sums really represent.
(c) How the government manages to get anything done.
(d) How tax money is spent.

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

3. What does Bill say about the barber in his new hometown?
(a) He could talk the hind leg off a donkey.
(b) He only seems to know hairstyles from the 1950's.
(c) He reads more books than Bill does.
(d) He is fresh out of barber school and eager to try new things.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After living in Britain for twenty years, what does Bill find refreshingly different about the United States?

3. How does Bill feel when he goes to a barbershop?

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

5. In "Dying Accents," what is the name of the man who does carpentry around the Bryson house?

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