The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

“The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” Bill Bryson focuses on ________

• a child who wants to have the superpower to vaporize people

• how excellent marketing tricks kids into going shopping with their parents

• the best way to bother innocent bystanders by dropping M&Ms into their soup

• the life of the author an the events that happened as he was growing up

What was the feature called, that offered a supply of comic books to kids, while their parents shopped?

(a)  

Which inventions, that seemed futuristic in the 50s, were mentioned in the book passages?

• die-cast figures

• fluorescent tubes

• escalators

• comic books

Young Bill Bryson got mad at the man in charge of the toy box in the Tea Room because he reminded Bill of the fact that he doesn't have a girlfriend

• True

• False

When buying groceries at Dahl's, what happens before you can collect them?

• the groceries are placed on a special sloping conveyor

• you have to drive through a tunnel to collect them

• your groceries get bagged and you pay for them

• you get a plastic card with a number on it