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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 was Jack Gantos born?
(a) Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.
(b) Columbus, Ohio.
(c) Buffalo, New York.
(d) Marquette, Michigan.

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

3. What refers to preparations of the cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug and as medicine?
(a) Ecstacy.
(b) LSD.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Hemp.

4. What kind of business did Jack Gantos's father run?
(a) Boat building.
(b) Tutoring.
(c) Computer.
(d) Construction.

5. In Section 1, Chapter 1, Jack Gantos admits the prisoner photograph on the front cover of the book is him, taken when he was how old?
(a) 27.
(b) 21.
(c) 19.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did Gantos give Scanlon to make his deal?

2. Gantos felt that he was a coward because he could not believe in himself enough to go to ___________ to be a reporter.

3. Mr. Gantos would drive the family on trips to their hometown and spend time pointing out _______ to Jack.

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

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

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