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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 does Gantos claim to be the cause of his acne in the cover photo?
(a) Stress and a greasy prison diet.
(b) Chemicals used to clean the prison.
(c) Sheets he slept on.
(d) Lack of sunlight.

2. When a friend invited Gantos to smoke marijuana at a party in Section 1, Chapter 3, he arrived to find only a group of guys sitting on the floor, trying to get high from __________.
(a) Roots and seeds.
(b) Stems and seeds.
(c) Leaves and roots.
(d) Hashish.

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

4. What is the largest of the Virgin islands?
(a) St. Croix.
(b) St. Peter.
(c) St. Thomas.
(d) St. John.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What author did Gantos think of in Section 1, Chapter 4, who wrote of Hiroshima after the bomb?

2. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?

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

4. To what was the fourth section of Gantos' journal dedicated?

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

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