Lemon Brown

"The dark sky, filled with angry, swirling clouds, reflected Greg Ridley's mood as he sat on the stoop of his building."

What is a stoop?

• A stairway entrance outside of a residence.

• A sidewalk.

• A bird.

• A chair.

At the beginning of the story how does Lemon Brown threaten Greg?

• He tells him he's going to tell his dad he was in the building

• He pulls a pipe out

• He pulls out a razor blade

• threatens to rob him

"Down the block there was an old tenement that had been abandoned for some months."

Based on this passage from paragraph 6, a tenement is an...

• car

• street

• apartment

"...Greg noticed that the door, once boarded over, had been slightly ajar."

The word ajar most closely means...

• slightly open

• closed

• gone

• slammed

"The person who called himself Lemon Brown peered forward, and Greg could see him clearly."

What is the meaning of the word peered?

• stare

• shine

• hid

• closed

"I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at a funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat."

Commence means "begin."

• True

• False

"Lemon Brown squeezed Greg's hand in his own hard, gnarled fist."

Which is NOT a synonym for gnarled?

• wrinkly

• twisted

• deformed

• young

How does Lemon Brown get rid of the robbers/thugs/​ ​

• He yells like an animal and scare then away
• He howl's and they run
• he throws himself down the stairs
• He fights them one by one

" He tried waving to Lemon Brown, hoping the old man would see him in the dim light and follow him to the next floor."

Which is the meaning of the word dim.

• Very bright

• Not bright.

• Sunlight.

• Very dark.

"Greg, except for an __________ tremor in his knees, stood stock-still."

The word missing means "done not willingly."

• tentatively

• involuntary

• stoop

• shudder