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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Age of Excitement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Bryson name the green jersey with the golden thunderbolt on the chest?
(a) Invisibility cloak.
(b) Sacred Jersey of Zap.
(c) Zip Zag Zap.
(d) Bryson's Bolt Brigade.

3. Where did Bryson and his mother go every Friday?
(a) The grocery.
(b) The library.
(c) To vist his grandma.
(d) Dinner and a movie.

4. Where did Bryson and his mother go for pie after the movies?
(a) Maguire's.
(b) Waffle House.
(c) Toddle House.
(d) Frisch's.

5. What was Bryson's father's job at the publication?
(a) Typesetter.
(b) Sports writer.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Managing editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did Bryson's mother's relatives live?

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

3. Who created the first television dinners?

4. What did Bryson say was a myth about childhood?

5. What could take Bryson a whole morning to do on the weekends?

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