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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. What refers to a cannabis preparation composed of compressed stalked resin glands collected from the unfertilized buds of the cannabis plant?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Hashish.
(c) Tea.
(d) Peyote.

2. What was the name of Jack Gantos's father?
(a) Alan Gantos.
(b) John Gantos.
(c) Robert Gantos.
(d) Mitch Gantos.

3. The woman who ran the hotel where Gantos lived during his senior year in high school claimed to be related to whom?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) Davy Crockett.
(d) George Washington.

4. Mr. Gantos would drive the family on trips to their hometown and spend time pointing out _______ to Jack.
(a) Ex-cons and criminals.
(b) Cars and trucks.
(c) Buildings.
(d) Dogs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the largest of the Virgin islands?

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

4. Jack Gantos attended a school that was a renovated _________.

5. When a friend invited Gantos to a party to smoke marijuana, what did he end up doing once he'd arrived?

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