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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 did the Thunderbolt Kid do to the man who drank out of Bryson's glass at Toddle House?
(a) Sent laster beams into his eyes.
(b) Pushed him off the stool.
(c) Tripped him and made him fall.
(d) Sent bolts of electricity into his back.

2. Who created the first television dinners?
(a) Lean Cuisine.
(b) C.A. Swanson.
(c) Banquet.
(d) Marie Callendar's.

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

4. What were Bryson's three uncles called?
(a) The Trio of Terror.
(b) Three Blind Mice.
(c) The Three Musketeers.
(d) The Three Stooges.

5. Where did Bryson grow up?
(a) Columbus, Ohio.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) Butte, Montana.
(d) Des Moines, Iowa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What unusual physical characteristic did Bryson's uncle have?

3. Who was a person Bryson got to meet on one of these trips with his father?

4. Who was the Thunderbolt Kid?

5. In what state did the military begin testing atomic bombs?

(see the answer key)

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