The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America Test | Final Test - Easy

Bill Bryson
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America Test | Final Test - Easy

Bill Bryson
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bryson get to New York?
(a) He takes the bus.
(b) He bokes.
(c) He flies.
(d) He rents a car.

2. How does Bryson get around paying the entrance fee to Colonial Williamsburg?
(a) He pretends to be a guide.
(b) He sneaks in.
(c) He walks in rather than taking the shuttle bus.
(d) He knows someone at the ticket office.

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

4. How does Bryson feel about New York as an adult?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Indiferent.
(c) Awed.
(d) Frightened.

5. Why does Bryson visit the Eisenhower home?
(a) He never saw it when he was younger.
(b) It's the only thing open in the area.
(c) He has fond memories there.
(d) He feels guilty for not getting anything from his visit to Gettysburg.

6. What does Bryson do while visiting Hal and Lucia?
(a) Visits other friends.
(b) Sightsees.
(c) Tells stories.
(d) Reads.

7. What do the imaginary business cards Bryson wants to hand out to New Yorkers say?
(a) "Thank you for not smoking."
(b) "Thank you for not killing me."
(c) "Will you go to prom with me?"
(d) "The end is near!"

8. What does Bryson compare the quietness of Mackinaw Island to?
(a) A dream.
(b) Death.
(c) His favorite campsite.
(d) A coma.

9. Bryson goes on a tangent comparing the American health care system to _______.
(a) Britain's.
(b) The Middle Age's.
(c) The future.
(d) Canada's.

10. The trash and poverty makes Philadelphia feel like more of a ______ to Bryson.
(a) Slum.
(b) Big city.
(c) Third-world country.
(d) Nightmare.

11. Bryson observes that the Eisenhower home is so well preserved it looked like Ike and Mamie _______.
(a) Were very messy.
(b) Planned its exibition.
(c) Didn't live in the house.
(d) Wandered off.

12. Who does Bryson believe the gas station attendant is calling?
(a) Information.
(b) His mother.
(c) The police.
(d) The press.

13. There are a large number of ______ buried in the Peacham cemetery.
(a) Elderly.
(b) Animals.
(c) Celebrities.
(d) Children.

14. In Cooperstown, Bryson reminisces about his childhood at the ________ Hall of Fame.
(a) Food.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Rock and Roll.
(d) Cartoon.

15. What does Bryson's friend, James Horner, observe about American youth today?
(a) They don't care about the environment.
(b) They are intellectually younger.
(c) They want to be famous.
(d) They dress funny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bryson observe inhabiting the most beautiful places in America?

2. Why does Bryson believe aliens have taken over Littleton?

3. Bryson sees a ______ dignitary in Washington D.C.

4. What does Bryson envy about Hal and Lucia?

5. How did Bryson feel about New York as a teenager?

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