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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Out and About.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Bryson have during the 1950s and 1960s?
(a) Bus boy.
(b) Grocery bagger.
(c) Delivery boy.
(d) Newspaper boy.

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

3. What did Bryson have to do three nights a week for his job?
(a) Spray out garbage cans.
(b) Wax floors.
(c) Clean tables.
(d) Collect subscription money.

4. When did the United States explode a hydrogen bomb in the Eniwetok atoll?
(a) November 1, 1952.
(b) April 4, 1959.
(c) January 3, 1945.
(d) September 15, 1954.

5. What did boys charge other boys for once they discovered them?
(a) Risque postcards.
(b) Porn magazines.
(c) X-rated movies.
(d) Holes in walls where undressed women could be seen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the one constant in the potluck suppers in town?

2. What did Bryson and his friends do at the venue in #149?

3. Where did Bryson like to accompany his father because there was always the chance of injury for excitement?

4. Who was Bryson's sister?

5. America was at war with ____________ when Bryson was born.

(see the answer key)

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