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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. Where did the Brysons visit during their trip to the state in #59?
(a) The Empire State Building.
(b) The White House.
(c) Universal Studios.
(d) Disneyland.

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

3. Where did the Brysons spend Christmas of 1960?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Florida.

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

5. Who created the first television dinners?
(a) Banquet.
(b) Lean Cuisine.
(c) C.A. Swanson.
(d) Marie Callendar's.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long was Bryson in a cast?

2. At whose house was Bryson playing when he broke the body part in #133?

3. What precaution did kids in the 1950s not have to take?

4. What was Bryson's parents' response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

5. In what year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

(see the answer key)

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