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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, What, Me Worry?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was another fear for people in the 1950s?
(a) Communism.
(b) E Coli bacteria.
(c) Fuel emissions.
(d) X-rays.

2. Where did the radioactive ash from the bomb fall?
(a) Navy ships.
(b) Nearby islands.
(c) Pearl Harbor.
(d) San Francisco.

3. At whose house was Bryson playing when he broke the body part in #133?
(a) Arthur Bergen's.
(b) Buddy Miller's.
(c) Eddie Corcoran's.
(d) Duke Collins'.

4. What eroded the sense of security for people in the 1950s?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) Soviet long range missiles.
(d) Polio.

5. In what year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led a movement in trying to identify the element in #95?

2. Which state did the U.S. use as a test site?

3. Where did the Bryson family go in the new vehicle?

4. What was the repercussion of underground bomb tests?

5. By 1958, the average child in the United States carried ten times more _______________ than the year before.

(see the answer key)

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