Tristan Strong - Chapters 1-17

Tristan's family's legacy is...

• cheerleading

• shoemaking

• boxing

• wood work

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Bottle trees are important because...

• Bottles carry over the happy spirits and they sing in the breeze

• Slaves carried over the practice over with them from Africa to capture and dispose of any haints wandering around

• The music of the bottles creates a protective barrier.

• Bottles are glass and better to recycle

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Ayanna saves Tristan and Gum Baby from the Burning Sea in her floating raft. Who does she say is responsible for all of this chaos?

• Anansi

• Brer Fox

• Uncle C

• Maafa

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Ayanna explains that Tristan is in the Land of Alke. How is Alke described?

• Alke is a friend of Gum Baby.

• Alke is off the coast of Greece. It is a part of the real world that Tristan never knew.

• Alke is the dream world to Tristan's reality. The tales, the fables, things that he thought were made up exist in this world.

• Alke is the most mountainous land in New Zealand. It has a lot of greenery. It is Tristan's favorite place.

Brer Fox sacrifices his own life to save the Midfolk. What is after them?

• A rabid sea monster

• Poseidon, King of the Sea

• The grizzly bear

• Fetterlings: iron shackles come to life!

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What are fetterlings?

• chain-like creatures with metal shackles for heads

• ships made of bones that populate the Burning Sea

• animal-like creates that live in the Thicket

• a type of soup dish eating by Midfolk

True or False: Tristan blames himself for not being able to save Eddie.

• True

• False

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Who was the Paper Giant?

• Tristan

• Gum Baby

• Eddie

• Ayanna

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What did they call the people from all over MidPass who escaped the attacks by the fetterlings?

• Survivors

• Haints

• Maafas

• Alkes

To the people of MidPass Brer Rabbit and John Henry were considered to be

• legends

• folktales

• gods

• animals

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