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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, School Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the area set apart in the grocery where kids could read while their parents shopped?
(a) Little Shoppers.
(b) Little Library.
(c) Tot Shop.
(d) Kiddie Corral.

2. Who led a movement in trying to identify the element in #95?
(a) Joseph McCarthy.
(b) George McGovern.
(c) Hubert Humphrey.
(d) Merv Griffen.

3. What did Bryson say was a myth about childhood?
(a) Every day is an adventure.
(b) Any Christmas gift is the best.
(c) Every birthday is happy.
(d) Time goes by fast.

4. What was an insect that rose from the ground and could fly up someone's shorts?
(a) Lightning bug.
(b) Cicada.
(c) Mosquito.
(d) Wasp.

5. What did Bryson threaten to do to Bryson when he saw the amount of absences on his report cards?
(a) Take away his comic books.
(b) Send him to a military academy.
(c) Ground him for the rest of his life.
(d) Withhold his allowance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Bryson's favorite books?

2. What were household buying more than one of in the 1950s?

3. Why were all the students so sleepy in school?

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

5. For what characteristic was Bryson's father known?

(see the answer key)

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