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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bryson feel about Wiscasset?
(a) It's not well known enough.
(b) It's too crowded.
(c) It's almost perfect.
(d) It's not worth the travel time.

2. What does Bryson realize he won't find in Maine?
(a) An affordable house.
(b) A good woman.
(c) Bad lobster.
(d) Good landscape.

3. Who owns and operates Mount Vernon?
(a) Bryson's uncle.
(b) A historical group.
(c) The Vernon family.
(d) A Native American tribe.

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

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

6. Why does Bryson joke that aliens have abducted everyone from Peacham?
(a) He heard a rumor.
(b) The people are so strange.
(c) There are a lot of crop-circles.
(d) No one's around.

7. Bryson refers to Bloomsburg, where his brother lives, as the ______.
(a) Worst place on earth.
(b) Rustbelt.
(c) Last fronteir.
(d) Pinnacle of home.

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

9. What does the apothecary shop in Colonial Williamsburg sell?
(a) Replica apothecary jars.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Educational DVDs.
(d) Nothing.

10. Why does Bryson believe aliens have taken over Littleton?
(a) Because he believes everything he hears.
(b) Because no one ever sleeps.
(c) Because everyone is so nice.
(d) Because the people never eat.

11. What is the problem with Cooperstown which prevents it from being Bryson's "perfect town"?
(a) There are no restaurants.
(b) There's not enough history.
(c) It's too well-known.
(d) There are too many tourists.

12. When the hotel owner in Littleton promises Bryson a good room, what is Bryson thinking?
(a) He doubts it.
(b) That "good" is relative.
(c) He's glad to have finally found an honest man.
(d) The man is going to kill him.

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

14. Bryson skips the tour in Newport and looks at the homes from _____.
(a) A magazine.
(b) A boat.
(c) His car.
(d) A cliff.

15. What does Bryson observe about the cemetery in Peacham?
(a) The headstones are new.
(b) It's like a public park.
(c) It's very large for a small town.
(d) It's very small.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bryson's opinion of Gettysburg?

2. Where was Bryson's brother living recently?

3. In Newport, what homes does the tour visit?

4. What does Bryson think will be the downfall of Detroit?

5. People are _____ when Bryson tells them of the dignitary he saw in D.C.

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