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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jack's friend Tim Scanlon need when he arrived in town?
(a) To use his car.
(b) To borrow a book.
(c) Money for drugs.
(d) Place to stay.

2. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Simile.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Catalist.
(d) Metaphor.

3. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1899.

4. What author did Gantos think of in Section 1, Chapter 4, who wrote of Hiroshima after the bomb?
(a) John Hersey.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Davy Crockett.

5. Jack Gantos attended a school that was a renovated _________.
(a) Hospital.
(b) Church.
(c) Train station.
(d) Prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hotel where Gantos found himself living during his senior year in high school?

2. What does Gantos claim to be the cause of his acne in the cover photo?

3. Where is San Juan located?

4. When a friend invited Gantos to a party to smoke marijuana, what did he end up doing once he'd arrived?

5. As Gantos spent time talking with Tim Scanlon he began to regret his decision to ____________.

(see the answer key)

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