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

2. What was Bryson's parents' response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) They were cautiously optimistic.
(b) Everything would be fine.
(c) They built an air raid shelter.
(d) They knew they were going to die.

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

4. What family attraction and vacation spot opened in 1955?
(a) Universal Studios.
(b) SeaWorld.
(c) Six Flags.
(d) Disneyland.

5. What did Bryson, Buddy and Bill do to the Lincoln Logs to turn them white?
(a) Rubbed lemons on them.
(b) Urinated on them.
(c) Painted them.
(d) Soaked them in bleach.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who distributed fish tainted from the radioactive ash?

2. In which town did the people in #121 live?

3. What was the area set apart in the grocery where kids could read while their parents shopped?

4. For how long was Bryson in a cast?

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

(see the answer key)

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