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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 the main street of Bryson's hometown?
(a) Main Street.
(b) Grand Avenue.
(c) Wayne Avenue.
(d) Commerce Street.

2. What did Bryson and his friends make a little neighborhood kid eat once as an experiment?
(a) Matches.
(b) Mud.
(c) Kitty litter.
(d) Red berries in the backyard.

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

4. Who was Bryson's friend who lived across the alley and had good toys?
(a) Butch Cavanaugh.
(b) Billy MacKenzie.
(c) Eddie Williams.
(d) Buddy Doberman.

5. What was something that Bryson's mother tended to forget?
(a) Her kids' birthdays.
(b) Driving directions.
(c) Where she put her keys.
(d) The safe combination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an insect that rose from the ground and could fly up someone's shorts?

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

3. Where did the Brysons spend Christmas of 1960?

4. What did Bryson's mother serve at every meal even though Bryson did not like it?

5. Who was Bryson's sister?

(see the answer key)

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