The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Bill Bryson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Bill Bryson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Where are the senior citizens visiting the "Little White House" from?
(a) A retirement home.
(b) Alabama.
(c) A Baptist church.
(d) A hospital.

2. What prompts Bryson to return to the land of his youth?
(a) He wants to find his old friends.
(b) His loss of memory.
(c) He lost his job.
(d) His disturbed and erratic background.

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

4. As a child, what did Bryson always think about Pella?
(a) It was ficticious.
(b) That it was atypical.
(c) That it was unnecessary.
(d) It was for poor people.

5. Why does Bryson leave Pine Mountain so quickly?
(a) It isn't like what the name implies.
(b) It's too cold.
(c) There is massive racial segregation.
(d) He has bad allergies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were Bryson's family vacations always so dingy?

2. Bryson finds that most items advertised in the New York Times are _____.

3. How did Bryson feel about Abe Lincoln's home when he was a boy?

4. Bryson believes _______ isn't among the options of students today.

5. The Herman Talmadge Memorial Bridge "_____" Bryson into South Carolina.

(see the answer key)

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