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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 unusual physical characteristic did Bryson's uncle have?
(a) A hole in his throat.
(b) One blue eye and one green eye.
(c) A streak of white hair in his black hair.
(d) A peg leg.

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

3. What were household buying more than one of in the 1950s?
(a) Houses.
(b) Time Shares.
(c) Cars.
(d) Bicycles.

4. What became the joy of every family in the 1950s?
(a) Subdivisions.
(b) Diners.
(c) Ice cream makers.
(d) Television.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children under the age of 12 were living in the mid-1950s in America?

2. How did life in the 1950s make people feel?

3. Where did Bryson and his mother go every Friday?

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

5. Where did Bryson and his mother go for pie after the movies?

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