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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city in Florida did Gantos finish high school?
(a) Miami.
(b) Fort Lauderdale.
(c) Key West.
(d) Tallahassee.

2. According to the author in Section 1, Chapter 3, one afternoon his entire school was send to the auditorium where they heard presentations from ____________.
(a) Atheletes.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Journalists.
(d) Doctors.

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

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

5. When a friend invited Gantos to a party to smoke marijuana, what did he end up doing once he'd arrived?
(a) Talking to a dog in the backyard.
(b) Drinking heavily until 4 a.m.
(c) Drinking a few beers and leaving.
(d) Passing out in the bathtub.

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. 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?

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

4. Jack Gantos's father helped secure him a job as __________ in San Juan.

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

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