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

2. With what was Gantos paid while working in St. Croix with his father?
(a) Food and liquor.
(b) Room and board.
(c) Gold.
(d) Hash.

3. In what city in Florida did Gantos finish high school?
(a) Fort Lauderdale.
(b) Tallahassee.
(c) Key West.
(d) Miami.

4. Where had Jack Gantos's father moved his business in Section 1, Chapter 3?
(a) St. Thomas.
(b) St. Croix.
(c) St. Peter.
(d) St. John.

5. Gantos felt that he was a coward because he could not believe in himself enough to go to ___________ to be a reporter.
(a) Brazil.
(b) Alaska.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman who ran the hotel where Gantos lived during his senior year in high school claimed to be related to whom?

2. Where is San Juan located?

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

4. Why was Jack Gantos unable to attend school in San Juan?

5. Tim Scanlon promised to help Gantos by going in with him to buy ____________, which they could sell.

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