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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. Mr. Gantos would drive the family on trips to their hometown and spend time pointing out _______ to Jack.
(a) Cars and trucks.
(b) Buildings.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Ex-cons and criminals.

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

3. Why was Jack Gantos unable to attend school in San Juan?
(a) He followed the wrong religion.
(b) He did not speak Spanish.
(c) He was an illegal alien.
(d) He had a rare disease.

4. What kind of books did Gantos find himself reading regularly in St. Croix in Section 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Political novels.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Young adult novels.
(d) Nonfiction.

5. Instead of construction, Gantos and his father built _____________.
(a) Caskets.
(b) Crates.
(c) Fireplaces.
(d) Furniture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What author did Gantos think of in Section 1, Chapter 4, who wrote of Hiroshima after the bomb?

3. 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 __________.

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

5. After a day's sail, Hamilton took Gantos to what location where the hash was buried?

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