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

2. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Catalist.

3. In Section 1, Chapter 2, Gantos explains he was in what year in high school when he began working?
(a) Middle.
(b) Junior.
(c) Senior.
(d) Freshman.

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

5. Tim Scanlon believed all human behavior was controlled by _________.
(a) Electrical impulses.
(b) Guilt.
(c) The conscience.
(d) Chemical reactions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money did Gantos give Scanlon to make his deal?

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

4. With what family did Jack Gantos first live in Florida while he worked on finishing school?

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

(see the answer key)

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