The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Bill Bryson
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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 15 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bryson remember about Delaware?
(a) The smell.
(b) How he lost his retainer there once.
(c) The people.
(d) Hardly anything.

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

3. As an adult, Bryson finds Mark Twain's boyhood home to be ______.
(a) Dilapidated.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Boring.
(d) Fascinating.

4. Bryson and his siblings used to poke matches into apples or boiled eggs until they resembled a _______.
(a) Chia Pet.
(b) Madusa statue.
(c) Porcupine.
(d) Cactus.

5. In Bryson's road-trip, what does he desire to find?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) His family.
(c) A better job.
(d) The perfect town.

Short Answer Questions

1. How frequently does the waitress in Littleton refill Bryson's water glass?

2. After leaving the gas station, how does Bryson become lost?

3. Why is Bryson disappointed by Auburn, AL?

4. What does the apothecary shop in Colonial Williamsburg sell?

5. What annoys Bryson about all the signs in Beaufort?

(see the answer key)

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