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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 5 and Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hamilton and Gantos stayed in a hotel that had previously housed a great number of _____________.
(a) Bankers.
(b) Writers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Miners.

2. What did Hamilton send up to the Japanese fishing vessel as a thank you gift?
(a) Some books.
(b) Chunk of hash.
(c) Bottle of rum.
(d) Fish.

3. What did Scanlon claim had happened to him when Gantos called in Section 1, Chapter 4?
(a) He had lost the money.
(b) He had been arrested.
(c) He had been mugged.
(d) He had met a beautiful woman.

4. Gantos was taken to the solitary confinement cells where a man lay injured with what item up his anus?
(a) A broken light bulb.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A wooden spoon.
(d) A shoe.

5. Whom did Gantos's father bring with him when he visited Gantos in prison in Section 3, Chapter 6?
(a) Gantos's grandfather.
(b) Gantos's brother.
(c) Gantos's mother.
(d) Gantos's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jack Gantos tell his family he had decided not to do right away in Section 1, Chapter 3?

2. Gantos's father asked him to sign over _____________ in Section 3, Chapter 3?

3. Tim Scanlon promised to help Gantos by going in with him to buy ____________, which they could sell.

4. Where did Gantos arrive just as a tropical storm hit?

5. Hamilton taught Gantos that he couldn't just defecate in the ocean, as what would likely happen?

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