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

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

3. What author did Gantos think of in Section 1, Chapter 4, who wrote of Hiroshima after the bomb?
(a) Davy Crockett.
(b) Jack Kerouac.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) John Hersey.

4. According to Section 1: Chapter 3, Gantos dedicated the first section of his four section journal to _________.
(a) Passages from books that inspire him.
(b) Inspired ideas for books.
(c) Vocabulary practice.
(d) Daily entries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Scanlon claim had happened to him when Gantos called in Section 1, Chapter 4?

2. In Section 1, Chapter 4, Gantos found himself inspired by what novel?

3. 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?

4. Where did Gantos arrive just as a tropical storm hit?

5. What refers to preparations of the cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug and as medicine?

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