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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. Where in Florida did Jack Gantos's parents send him so that he could finish school?
(a) Miami.
(b) S.t. Petersburg.
(c) Fort Lauderdale.
(d) Key West.

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

3. What did the family that Jack Gantos rented a room from in Florida while working on finishing school sell from their home?`
(a) Drugs.
(b) Patio furniture.
(c) Prosthetic limbs.
(d) Paintings.

4. 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 met a beautiful woman.
(c) He had been arrested.
(d) He had been mugged.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Section 1, Chapter 4, Gantos decided to drive criss-cross over Florida on his way to see his family in ______.

3. What led to Jack Gantos being thrown out of the house that he was staying in with an older couple in Florida?

4. When was Ernest Hemingway born?

5. Where had Jack Gantos's father moved his business in Section 1, Chapter 3?

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