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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. How does Bill feel when he goes to a barbershop?
(a) Like he is going to empty his wallet.
(b) He can get caught up on his reading.
(c) Helpless and insecure.
(d) Happy tot talk to someone with sense.

2. According to Bill, which offense do the British commit that he takes offense to?
(a) Being rude.
(b) Not lining up for service.
(c) Charging to use public bathrooms.
(d) Sloppy parking.

3. In "The War on Drugs," what is wrong, according to Bryson, about the penalties for drug possession?
(a) He thinks the laws favor the poor.
(b) He thinks the penalties should be harsher.
(c) He thinks the laws favor the rich.
(d) He thinks the penalties for drug possession are too harsh.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bryson say that all New Englanders do?

2. In "Design Flaws," what does Bill complain about, in regards to his computer?

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

4. Bryson finds summer blockbuster movies annoying, but what does he have a real problem with?

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

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