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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 is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Catalist.
(c) Simile.
(d) Foreshadowing.

2. What did Rik pay Gantos with in Section 2, Chapter 1?
(a) American currency.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Hash.
(d) Gold.

3. As Gantos spent time talking with Tim Scanlon he began to regret his decision to ____________.
(a) Sell hash.
(b) Move to New York.
(c) Move to St. Croix.
(d) Delay college.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money did Gantos give Scanlon to make his deal?

3. When Gantos awoke one morning in Section 1, Chapter 4, he was covered in blisters which he began to think of as ___________.

4. Gantos agreed to to help Hamilton sail with hash from St. Croix to what city?

5. 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?

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