Tristan Strong - Chapters 1-17

Tristan's family's legacy is...

• cheerleading

• shoemaking

• boxing

• wood work

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

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

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!

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

Who was the Paper Giant?

• Tristan

• Gum Baby

• Eddie

• Ayanna

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