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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20 through 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tourists are crowding Cape Cod?
(a) Columbus Day visitors.
(b) Celebrity watchers.
(c) Fourth of July visitors.
(d) Elderly couples.

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

3. What thought comforts Bryson about the pushy seniors at the "Little White House"?
(a) They'll get karmic payback.
(b) They won't enjoy the site.
(c) That soon they'll be dead.
(d) They don't know what they're doing.

4. What is Bryson's primary complaint about Yosemite?
(a) There are no signs.
(b) It's not well-kept.
(c) It's far away from the main road.
(d) There are too many tourists.

5. Bryson thinks the houses in Maine are _____.
(a) Too tall.
(b) Magificent.
(c) Dreary.
(d) Overpriced.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money would Bryson have spent at Colonial Williamsburg if he was with his family?

2. What does Bryson claim is good about Des Moines in comparison the rest of Iowa?

3. Why does Bryson smile at everyone in Littleton?

4. In Oxford, what is the young woman trying to tell Bryson when she says "make the skyaya"?

5. What improves as Bryson drives through Vermont?

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