Treasure of Lemon Brown Quiz

Lemon Brown offers Greg a bite of his bread

Lemon Brown lectures Greg about entering old abandonded buildings alone

Lemon Brown threatens Greg with a razor

Lemon Brown watches Greg for an hour without Greg realizing it

"Dont try nothin' 'cause I got a razor sharp enough to cut a week into nine days!"

Greg, except for an involuntary tremor in his knees, stood stock still. The voice was high and brittle, like dry twigs being broken, surely not one he had ever heard before.

The upper part of the figure before him was still in darkness. The lower half was in the dim rectangle of light that fell unevenly from the window.

“What you doing here?” The figure shuffled forward again, and Greg took a small step backward.

The treasure is something valuable.

The treasure is something sentimental.

The treasure is something worthless.

all of these

“Hey! Rag man!” A voice called. “We know you in here. What you got up under them rags? You got any money?”

“What you doing here?” The figure shuffled forward again, and Greg took a small step backward.

“What you mean, if I have one.” Lemon Brown said. “Every man got a treasure. You don’t know that, you must be a fool!”

“Sure,” Greg said as he sat on the sofa and put one leg over the back. “What do you have, gold coins?”

The thugs believe Lemon Brown owes them money.

The thugs are angry with Lemon Brown for squatting in their building.

The thugs believe that Lemon Brown’s treasure is money.

The thugs are angry with Lemon Brown for stealing from them.

“We heard you talking about your treasure.” The voice was slurred. “We just want to see it, that’s all.”

“Throw down your money, old man, so I won’t have to bash your head in!”

“All I know is that I heard him talking about some kind of treasure.”

“You know they found that shopping bag lady with that load of money in her bags.”

a blues singer

his father

his son

his brother

“I used to travel around and make money to feed my wife and Jesse—that’s my boy’s name. Used to feed them good, too.”

“What you doing here? How come you don’t go in home when the rain come? Rain don’t bother you young folks none.”

“They used to say I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at a funeral, the dead would commence to rocking.”

“Had them big eyes like you got. I used to call them moon eyes. Look into them moon eyes and see anything you want"

that Greg goes there often; it’s his hideout

that only this remains after the fire that destroyed the building

that a homeless person is staying there

that the building is abandoned; no one lives there anymore

“The old man looked out [the window], then beckoned frantically for Greg to follow him.”

“There was a banging downstairs and a light as the men entered.”

“Greg felt Lemon Brown’s hand first lying on his shoulder, then probing down his arm until he finally took Greg’s hand into his own as they crouched in the darkness.”

“Greg could feel his temples throb as the man slowly neared them.”

“Greg felt himself near panic.”

He is willing to fight for his treasure.

He is mentally unstable.

He doesn't care if he lives or dies.

Being with Greg brought out the bravery in Lemon Brown.

Lemon Brown was protecting Greg since he was unable to protect his own son.