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Trombone Shorty
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A comprehension quiz from Rooted in Reading
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1. What genre is Trombone Shorty?
a. biography
b. historical fiction
d. fiction
c. autobiography
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2. What city did Troy Andrews grow up in that shaped his musical style?
2. What city did Troy Andrews grow up in that shaped his musical style?
c. Atlanta
d. New Orleans
b. Chicago
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9. Which is true about an autobiography and a biography.
All of the above.
Both genres tell the life of a person factually.
an biography is written by someone else.
An autobiography is written by the same person the book is about.
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8. Troy Andrews always had access to expensive instruments and music lessons
True
False
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4. How are music and gumbo alike according to Troy Andrews?
d. None of these
a. they are both spicy
b. they both fill your bellies up
c. it’s a bunch of different things mixed together to make something great
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5. What does it tell you about Troy and his friends that they made their own instruments?
d. both a and c
b. they were lazy
a. they were determined
c. they loved music
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6. What symbol that represents “music floating through the air” is seen throughout several pages of the book?
a. birds
b. balloons
c. storm clouds
d. airplanes
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7. What special event occurred at a Jazz Festival that heavily influenced Trombone Shorty?
None of these.
A famous musician Bo Diddley called Trombone Shorty up on stage
He fell off of the stage.
He flew away on an airplane
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3. Troy Andrews said: “People didn’t have a lot of __________in Treme, but we always had a lot of _________.”
c. money; music
b. people, love
a. houses, apartments
d. music, soul
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10. Troy Andrews wrote this book to inspire children.
False
True
