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

2. Why doesn't Bryson go to the Biltmore Estate?
(a) He hates the Vanderbilt family.
(b) It is closed.
(c) He doesn't want to pay the expensive admission.
(d) He finds its beauty to be morally wrong.

3. What awes Bryson about Savannah?
(a) The intelligence of its students.
(b) The creative modern homes.
(c) The simplicity of its roads.
(d) The beauty of the historic distric.

4. Bryson says the three things that kill a farmer are: "lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and _____".
(a) Disease.
(b) Wild animals.
(c) Old age.
(d) Pyschos.

5. What does Bryson observe most farmers are missing?
(a) A limb.
(b) A dog.
(c) A wife.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the effect Charleston has on Bryson?

2. What does Bryson observe has "eaten" Carbondale?

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

4. Why does Bryson stop in Bryson City?

5. What is the Mississippi police officer trying to ask Bryson in his thick accent?

(see the answer key)

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