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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a cannabis preparation composed of compressed stalked resin glands collected from the unfertilized buds of the cannabis plant?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Hashish.
(c) Tea.
(d) Peyote.

2. In Section 2, Chapter 1, Gantos's father's construction business was failing as a result of _________.
(a) Racial tensions.
(b) A ruined economy.
(c) Bad publicity.
(d) A tropical storm.

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

4. The woman who ran the hotel where Gantos lived during his senior year in high school claimed to be related to whom?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) Davy Crockett.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Thomas Edison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jack Gantos attended a school that was a renovated _________.

2. What is the largest of the Virgin islands?

3. What did Scanlon claim had happened to him when Gantos called in Section 1, Chapter 4?

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. Jack Gantos's father helped secure him a job as __________ in San Juan.

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