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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 7 and Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city did Gantos go to hide out after discovering the FBI was after him in Section 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Queens, New York.
(c) Fort Lauderdale.
(d) Key West.

2. What was the name of the physician's assistant who helped Gantos find a position with the medical staff?
(a) Mr. Casey.
(b) Mr. Newman.
(c) Mr. Bow.
(d) Mr. Wilcox.

3. What was the name of Jack Gantos's father?
(a) Robert Gantos.
(b) Mitch Gantos.
(c) John Gantos.
(d) Alan Gantos.

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

5. Who mailed Gantos's college applications from his home so that he could avoid a Department of Corrections stamp in Section 3, Chapter 7?
(a) Mr. Bow.
(b) Mr. Casey.
(c) Mr. Wilcox.
(d) Mr. Newman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Tim Scanlon claim he was picking up merchandise in Section 1, Chapter 4?

3. What did Gantos and Hamilton believe a Japanese fishing vessel to be in Section 2, Chapter 3?

4. 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?

5. Where was Ernest Hemingway born?

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