Vocabulary
The Blues
Comprehension
Comprehension
Random Mix
100

partially open

What is ajar?

100
a mouth fiddle
What is the harmonica?
100
Greg's favorite sport that he cannot play because of his grades
What is basketball?
100

the setting of the story

What is Harlem, NY?

100

the name people used to call Lemon Brown

What is Sweet Lemon Brown?

200

nervous trembling

What is tremor?

200
This is the part of the country where Sweet Lemon Brown performed.
What is the South?
200
Lemon Brown teaches Greg that this kind of person has learned important lessons in life.
What is an older person?
200

an inference you can make about Lemon Brown based on his clothing

What is homeless?

200
The type of box Lemon Brown pulled clothes from
What is the Salvation Army?
300
hesistantly; with uncertainty
What is tentatively?
300

Lemon Brown's treasure

What are a harmonica and newspaper clippings?

300

The conflict that Greg and Lemon Brown share

What is facing a group of scalawags/neighborhood thugs?

300

the way that Greg made the scene even eerier when Lemon Brown stood at the top of the stairs

What is howling?

300
Lemon Brown knows his son loved him because of this.
What is the fact that Jesse saved his father's old harmonica and newspaper clippings of his hit performances (his treasure) while he was in the war?
400

roughened, as from age or work

What is gnarled?

400
"You don't give up the blues; they do this."
What is "they give you up?"
400

How Jesse died, according to Lemon Brown

What is he was killed in the war?

400

The name the neighborhood thugs called Lemon Brown

What is rag man?

400

What Lemon Brown does to scare off the intruders

What is throws himself down the stairs?

500

threatening

What is ominous?

500

The lead act in a show, something Lemon Brown was not, but he was still popular

What is a headliner?

500
The theme of the story
What is the value of a treasure cannot be measured in dollars?
500

The basketball team that Greg wanted to join

What are the Scorpions?

500

fear turns into curiosity, which turns in to respect

What are the feelings Greg has for Lemon Brown, which change throughout the story?

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