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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 1 and chapter 2.

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) Patio furniture.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Prosthetic limbs.
(d) Drugs.

2. Where did Gantos go to wait for Scanlon after giving him money?
(a) Hotel room.
(b) Restaurant.
(c) Bus station.
(d) Park.

3. In Section 1, Chapter 4, Gantos found himself inspired by what novel?
(a) On the Road.
(b) The Sea is My Brother.
(c) Book of Dreams.
(d) The Subterraneans.

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?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) O'Henry.
(d) Ovid.

5. Hamilton was a sailor from what country?
(a) Italy.
(b) Britain.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of books did Gantos find himself reading regularly in St. Croix in Section 2, Chapter 1?

2. In Section 2, Chapter 1, Gantos found himself in St. Croix, but it had changed drastically and _______were readily available.

3. What author did Gantos think of in Section 1, Chapter 4, who wrote of Hiroshima after the bomb?

4. According to Section 1: Chapter 3, Gantos dedicated the first section of his four section journal to _________.

5. When a friend invited Gantos to smoke marijuana at a party in Section 1, Chapter 3, he arrived to find only a group of guys sitting on the floor, trying to get high from __________.

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