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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jack's friend Tim Scanlon need when he arrived in town?
(a) Place to stay.
(b) To use his car.
(c) To borrow a book.
(d) Money for drugs.

2. Hamilton forced Gantos to hold cans on yardsticks while he _____________.
(a) Danced.
(b) Shot at them.
(c) Threw rocks at him.
(d) Recited Shakespeare.

3. What did Scanlon claim had happened to him when Gantos called in Section 1, Chapter 4?
(a) He had been mugged.
(b) He had lost the money.
(c) He had met a beautiful woman.
(d) He had been arrested.

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

5. In Section 1, Chapter 4, Gantos found himself inspired by a novel written by what author?
(a) Hunter S. Thompson.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Jack Kerouac.
(d) John Hersey.

6. Tim Scanlon promised to help Gantos by going in with him to buy ____________, which they could sell.
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Opium.
(c) Broken cars.
(d) Baseball cards.

7. Where was Jack Gantos born?
(a) Columbus, Ohio.
(b) Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.
(c) Marquette, Michigan.
(d) Buffalo, New York.

8. 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 __________.
(a) Roots and seeds.
(b) Leaves and roots.
(c) Hashish.
(d) Stems and seeds.

9. In Section 1, Chapter 4, Gantos decided to drive criss-cross over Florida on his way to see his family in ______.
(a) Key West.
(b) Tallahassee.
(c) St. Croix.
(d) Fort Lauderdale.

10. According to the author in Section 1, Chapter 3, one afternoon his entire school was send to the auditorium where they heard presentations from ____________.
(a) Doctors.
(b) Journalists.
(c) Atheletes.
(d) Prisoners.

11. What does Gantos claim to be the cause of his acne in the cover photo?
(a) Sheets he slept on.
(b) Chemicals used to clean the prison.
(c) Lack of sunlight.
(d) Stress and a greasy prison diet.

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

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

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

15. What refers to preparations of the cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug and as medicine?
(a) Hemp.
(b) Ecstacy.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) LSD.

Short Answer Questions

1. What led to Jack Gantos being thrown out of the house that he was staying in with an older couple in Florida?

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

3. What did Jack Gantos tell his family he had decided not to do right away in Section 1, Chapter 3?

4. Hamilton and Gantos were unable to reach Rik in what city?

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

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