Questions
Greg's age.
What is 14?
a scamp, rascal, scoundrel, or villain
What is a scalawag?
Lemon Brown's weapon he threatened Greg with.
What is a razor?
Why was Greg in the tenement?
He said he was there because it was raining.
Lemon Brown's profession
What is blues singer?
Markings such as initials, slogans, or drawings written, spray painted, or sketched on a sidewalk, wall of a building or public restroom.
What is graffiti?
This is the class Greg was failing.
What is math?
Did Lemon Brown really have a razor with him?
No, when Greg turned round to see him, there was no sign of a razor that could ' cut a week into nine days".
This is the person Greg was most trying to avoid in the exposition of the story.
Who is Greg's Father?
Having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold.
What is musty?
The name of the basketball team Greg was hoping to play with.
Who are the Scorpions?
What did the thugs think the treasure was?
Money
This is the person Lemon Brown's son lived with after his wife's death.
Who is Jesse's aunt?
A run down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
What is a tenement?
The age of the news clippings.
What is 50 years?
What did Greg think the treasure was?
Gold coins
Greg does this when he enters the house after his encounter with Lemon Brown.
What is smile?
A grocery store, especially among Spanish-speaking Americans.
What is bodega?
This is the climax of the story.
What is: when the thugs enter the tenement and threaten Lemon Brown?
What is the difference between what Greg and the thugs thought the treasure was, and how Lemon Brown perceived it?
Greg and the thugs related treasure to something of monetary value, something materialistic, such as money and gold. Whereas Lemon Brown considered his harmonica and paper clippings that were of emotional value as his treasure.