What is Lemon Brown's treasure?

newspaper clippings and a harmonica

Greg's father's stories about having to leave school at an early age & his concern about Greg's grades let us know...

He wants Greg to learn and to excel so that Greg will have more chances as

Why did the three men come into the abandoned house?

to rob Lemon Brown of his treasure

Why is Lemon Brown at first suspicious of Greg?

He thinks Greg wants his treasure.

At the beginning of the story, why doesn't Greg want to go inside his house?

He doesn't want to study math or get lectured by his father.

Before meeting him at the tenement, Greg had seen Lemon Brown

sorting through trash and old clothes

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1
What is Lemon Brown's treasure?
newspaper clippings and a harmonica
a bag of gold coins
old photographs of his son
a love letter from his wife
2
At the story's conclusion, how does Greg feel as he thinks about the lecture that his father will give him?
He begins to cry.
He becomes anxious
He decides not to go home.
He smiles
3
Greg's father's stories about having to leave school at an early age & his concern about Greg's grades let us know...
He had to drop out of school he could never keep a job.
He worries about Greg's grades because he doesn't have enough to keep him o
He wants Greg to learn and to excel so that Greg will have more chances as
He couldn't play ball in school, he refuses to let his son play.
4
What is the literary term for a person or animal who takes part in the action of a story?
critic
character
author
narrator
5
Greg's father had worked hard, as he often told his son, to pass the test to become
a schoolteacher
a basketball coach
a tenement manager
a postal worker
6
How do writers usually let the reader know the most about characters?
how they vote
what type of work they do
what they say and do
how they dress
7
Greg wants to play
baseball
the harmonica
basketball
the guitar
8
Why did the three men come into the abandoned house?
to out of the rain
they were homeless
they needed someplace to sleep
to rob Lemon Brown of his treasure
9
Why is Lemon Brown at first suspicious of Greg?
He thinks Greg wants his treasure.
He thinks Greg is the tenement owner.
He hears Greg howl at the window.
He thinks Greg is going to move in.
10
Lemon Brown's son
was killed in the war
never knew his father
ran away from home
lives in another state
11
At the beginning of the story, why doesn't Greg want to go inside his house?
No one is home, and there is nothing to do.
His shoes are muddy, and he doesn't want to mess up the carpet.
He is waiting outside for a friend to come get him to play basketball.
He doesn't want to study math or get lectured by his father.
12
Before meeting him at the tenement, Greg had seen Lemon Brown
singing blues at a busy intersection
sorting through trash and old clothes
talking to Greg's father and principal
attending a Scorpions basketball game
13
What does Greg have a better understanding of after talking with Lemon Brown?
the significance of the blues
how to play basketball
his own father's feelings
how important it is to hide one's treasure

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