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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color was the barn on Bryson's grandparents' farm?
(a) Red.
(b) Grey.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

2. What weather condition was a threat to the area?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Hurricanes.
(c) Tornadoes.
(d) Blizzards.

3. In which town did the people in #121 live?
(a) Dubuque.
(b) Butte.
(c) Winfield.
(d) Omaha.

4. In what year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1973.

5. What quality hindered Bryson in his work?
(a) Inaccuracy.
(b) Absentmindedness.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Tardiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bryson and his friends play inside most of the time?

2. What did Bryson threaten to do to Bryson when he saw the amount of absences on his report cards?

3. In what year did the Thunderbolt Kid's sacred jersey meet its fate?

4. What eroded the sense of security for people in the 1950s?

5. What was the landscape like in the area where Bryson's grandparents lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Dewey and how did he impact Bryson's job?

2. What was the irony of sending Bryson to the cloakroom as a punishment?

3. What was Bryson's job as a boy and how did his absentmindedness become a liability?

4. What was the recovery process for Bryson's broken leg?

5. What was Bryson's opinion of staying in Des Moines versus moving to a bigger city?

6. What did the adult Bryson recall about the Des Moines of his youth?

7. How did the Bryson family end up staying in a hotel in Harlem?

8. Describe Riverview Amusement Park and why Bryson thought it was so awful.

9. Describe the scenario of sleeping on his grandparents' sleeping porch in the winter.

10. What happened to The Thunderbolt Kid's sacred jersey?

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