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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 through 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Bryson feel about New York as a teenager?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Inspired.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Awed.

2. Who owns and operates Mount Vernon?
(a) Bryson's uncle.
(b) A Native American tribe.
(c) The Vernon family.
(d) A historical group.

3. Bryson dislikes the new _______ of the Smithsonian.
(a) Organization.
(b) Wing.
(c) Artwork.
(d) Management.

4. When Bryson was a child at Gettysburg, his father bought him a _________.
(a) Toy rifle.
(b) Book.
(c) Hat.
(d) Flag.

5. Bryson finds that most items advertised in the New York Times are _____.
(a) Fancy.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Junk.
(d) Fake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bryson is usually _______ by college towns.

2. Bryson thinks the people of Dullard are looking at him with "________eyes."

3. What pop-culture medium does Bryson claim paints southerners in a bad light?

4. After being the only white man in a restaurant in Alabama, Bryson feels _____ to get back on the highway.

5. What does Bryson think the Smithsonian is lacking today?

(see the answer key)

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