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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. What does Bryson envy about Hal and Lucia?
(a) Their fun jobs.
(b) Their easy opulence.
(c) Their blissful ignorance.
(d) Their happy marraige.

2. What does Bryson say he set out to Missouri with?
(a) No money.
(b) Great expectations.
(c) A light heart.
(d) A bicycle.

3. Who are the Melungeons?
(a) A common name for local police.
(b) A family Bryson knew as a child.
(c) Descendents of the settlers of Roanoke.
(d) A group of religious extremists.

4. What does Bryson wish this era would allow him to do to beggars?
(a) Strike them with a stick.
(b) Take them home and care for them.
(c) Teach them to steal.
(d) Enslave them.

5. Why has Bryson never seen the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum"?
(a) His father never let him.
(b) He never cared too.
(c) His family never passed through the town.
(d) He was always afraid of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bryson say he, like all midwesterners, love?

2. Bryson feels that Columbus has pieces of _______.

3. How does Bryson get around paying the entrance fee to Colonial Williamsburg?

4. When Bryson was a child at Gettysburg, his father bought him a _________.

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

(see the answer key)

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