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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bryson tune in to a Canadian radio station?
(a) They listen to better music.
(b) He wants to know the weather up there.
(c) His friend is being interviewed.
(d) There is no useful information on American ones.

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

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

4. After leaving the gas station, how does Bryson become lost?
(a) The roads were blocked off.
(b) He can't understand directions.
(c) He takes a "shortcut."
(d) He fell asleep at the wheel.

5. Bryson sees a ______ dignitary in Washington D.C.
(a) American.
(b) French.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Chinese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bryson find "real New England"?

2. When the hotel owner in Littleton promises Bryson a good room, what is Bryson thinking?

3. What happened to the settlers of Roanoke, VA?

4. When Bryson was a child at Gettysburg, his father bought him a _________.

5. How is Philadelphia better than Bryson remembers from his childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bryson "believe" Littleton has been taken over by aliens?

2. In Bryson's opinion, how is poverty relative?

3. How does Bryson know how to socially categorize Hal and Lucia?

4. Why doesn't Bryson mind bad service in restaurants?

5. What revelation about poverty does Bryson have in Vermont?

6. Why is Bryson relieved to be back in Iowa?

7. In visiting Colonial Williamsburg, how does Bryson feel about tourism?

8. What is the unspoken connection with travelers?

9. Why are Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island more to Bryson's liking?

10. What does Bryson feel about Philadelphia having the affect of a big city?

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