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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 did the family that Jack Gantos rented a room from in Florida while working on finishing school sell from their home?`
(a) Paintings.
(b) Prosthetic limbs.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Patio furniture.

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

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

4. In Section 1, Chapter 4, Gantos decided to drive criss-cross over Florida on his way to see his family in ______.
(a) Tallahassee.
(b) Fort Lauderdale.
(c) St. Croix.
(d) Key West.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the largest of the Virgin islands?

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

3. Where had Jack Gantos's father moved his business in Section 1, Chapter 3?

4. What had Jack Gantos dreamed of being since he was young?

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

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