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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 through 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The road between Warm Springs to Macon isn't particularly ______.
(a) Safe.
(b) Scenic.
(c) Straight.
(d) Smooth.

2. What does Bryson first notice when crossing the line to North Carolina?
(a) The strange smell.
(b) The influx of billboards.
(c) The change in weather.
(d) The landscape improves.

3. After visiting Cherokee and Gatlinburg, in Bryson's opinion, what do Americans think it is necessary to do to a place?
(a) Revive it.
(b) Overly glorify it.
(c) Make it ugly.
(d) Name it.

4. When a girl asks Bryson "kin I help yew," how does Bryson feel?
(a) Like he's in danger.
(b) Like he's in another country.
(c) Embarrassed for her.
(d) Like he's falling in love.

5. What does Bryson observe has "eaten" Carbondale?
(a) Factories.
(b) Vacationers.
(c) Shopping malls.
(d) A monster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bryson tell the waitress he has just gotten out of prison for?

2. What does Bryson observe most farmers are missing?

3. According to Bryson's generalization, where will people from Des Moines work?

4. Bryson says he "wouldn't hesitate to give an old person a shove, especially a _______."

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

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