1. The future of a typical Des Moines youngster is settling down with a young girl named Bobbi and having a job at the local Firestone Factory.
2. Des Moines is said to be the most powerful hypnotic known to man according to the narrator.
3. Mr. Piper is a leering, cherry-faced idiot.
4. I = Mr. Piper, you = narrator, he = Mr. Piper, they = the English
5. a = False, b = True, c = True, d = False
6. Bill Bryson believes that Mr. Piper is a cretin and that Mr. Piper never listens to anything that is said to him.
7. Mr. Piper believes that the English are unclean because when he and his wife took a vacation to English and stayed in a hotel, they could not find a bathroom. Bryson refuted that the English are the "paragons of cleanliness" and that the use the most soap per capita.
8. Mr. Piper represents the stereotypical American Republican. Uneducated, racist, and bigoted.
