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

2. With what family did Jack Gantos first live in Florida while he worked on finishing school?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson.
(b) Mr. and Mrs. Bacon.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Farmer.
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins.

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

4. What led to Jack Gantos being thrown out of the house that he was staying in with an older couple in Florida?
(a) He crashed his car into the house.
(b) He started a fire in the house.
(c) He got drunk and threw up all over the house.
(d) He let the bathtub overflow.

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) 21.
(b) 32.
(c) 27.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the largest of the Virgin islands?

3. What does Gantos claim to be the cause of his acne in the cover photo?

4. The woman who ran the hotel where Gantos lived during his senior year in high school claimed to be related to whom?

5. In what city in Florida did Gantos finish high school?

(see the answer key)

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