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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 family attraction and vacation spot opened in 1955?
(a) Six Flags.
(b) Universal Studios.
(c) SeaWorld.
(d) Disneyland.

2. By 1958, the average child in the United States carried ten times more _______________ than the year before.
(a) copper.
(b) uranium.
(c) hydrogen.
(d) strontium.

3. What was the repercussion of underground bomb tests?
(a) Huge craters.
(b) Earthquakes.
(c) Destroyed phone lines.
(d) Sunken mines.

4. What was Bryson's parents' response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) They were cautiously optimistic.
(b) They knew they were going to die.
(c) They built an air raid shelter.
(d) Everything would be fine.

5. The hydrogen bomb could have ignited all the ____________ in the world.
(a) carbon dioxide.
(b) plutonium.
(c) helium.
(d) oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did life in the 1950s make people feel?

2. What became the joy of every family in the 1950s?

3. In what ocean is the Eniwetok atoll located?

4. What were Bryson's three uncles called?

5. What body part did Bryson break?

(see the answer key)

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