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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. When Gantos awoke one morning in Section 1, Chapter 4, he was covered in blisters which he began to think of as ___________.
(a) Allergies.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Acne.
(d) A stigmata.

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

3. What did Jack's friend Tim Scanlon need when he arrived in town?
(a) To use his car.
(b) Place to stay.
(c) To borrow a book.
(d) Money for drugs.

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) Key West.
(c) Fort Lauderdale.
(d) St. Croix.

5. To what was the second section of Gantos' journal dedicated?
(a) Vocabulary practice.
(b) Daily entries.
(c) Passages from books that inspire him.
(d) Inspired ideas for books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gantos go to wait for Scanlon after giving him money?

2. Where did Tim Scanlon claim he was picking up merchandise in Section 1, Chapter 4?

3. Where is San Juan located?

4. 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?

5. In Section 1, Chapter 2, Gantos explains he was in what year in high school when he began working?

(see the answer key)

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