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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skills does Ramun quickly learn?
(a) The grading and valuation of the pearls.
(b) How to drive a stick shift car.
(c) None, Ramun is lazy.
(d) The operations for running a fleet of ships.

2. What ancestors does Gaspar Ruiz claim this particular physical trait of Ramun's comes from?
(a) Americans.
(b) Moorish infidels.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Irish hethens.

3. What overturns Luzon's canoe?
(a) A whale.
(b) A shark.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A tremendous splash.

4. Where does the setting of the story take place?
(a) La Paz, Mexico.
(b) La Paz, New Mexico.
(c) San Jose, California.
(d) Cancun, Mexico.

5. How old is Ramun at the beginning of the story?
(a) 12-years-old.
(b) 15-years-old.
(c) 16-years-old.
(d) 22-years-old.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ramun and Soto Luzon arrive at their destination, what is ominously circling the boat?

2. How many small pearls does Ramun find in his prized oyster?

3. What favor does Ramun ask Soto to do?

4. When diving, what must Ramun and Soto avoid?

5. Ramun asks Luzon why he does not hunt for pearls in what location?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gaspar Ruiz have tattooed all over his body?

2. Describe the Manta Diablo when it roamed the earth.

3. What hangs over the water on the morning of Ramun's fourth day of learning to dive for pearls?

4. How often does Soto Luzon visit Salazar and Son?

5. Why must Ramun and Luzon change their course when they are heading back to La Paz?

6. Why does Ramun put the small pearls he found in the other half of the oyster shell?

7. What body part of Ramun's is his father ashamed of, and why?

8. What three things about the pearl business does Ramun's father want to teach Ramun?

9. Why does Soto Luzon not help Ramun when Ramun dives in the cave?

10. Why do the mothers in Ramun's village tell their children tales of the Manta Diablo?

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