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

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

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

4. What did Scanlon claim had happened to him when Gantos called in Section 1, Chapter 4?
(a) He had met a beautiful woman.
(b) He had been arrested.
(c) He had been mugged.
(d) He had lost the money.

5. Where did Gantos arrive just as a tropical storm hit?
(a) Tallahassee, Florida.
(b) St. John.
(c) St. Croix.
(d) Key West, Florida.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what was the second section of Gantos' journal dedicated?

4. Where in Florida did Jack Gantos's parents send him so that he could finish school?

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?

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