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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 did Gantos arrive just as a tropical storm hit?
(a) St. Croix.
(b) Tallahassee, Florida.
(c) St. John.
(d) Key West, Florida.

2. Gantos wrote stories about those around him as well as his own ordeals in prison by journaling in his copy of a book by whom?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) O'Henry.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

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

4. What had Jack Gantos dreamed of being since he was young?
(a) Writer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Ernest Hemingway born?

3. What did the family that Jack Gantos rented a room from in Florida while working on finishing school sell from their home?`

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

5. To what was the third section of Gantos' journal dedicated?

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