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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. Where do Ramun and his father take the pearl once they reach home?
(a) Their small workshop.
(b) Ramun's bedroom.
(c) The family kitchen.
(d) Nowhere.

2. What does Mr. Salazar suggest they do with the characteristic that disappoints Ramun and his father?
(a) Break the pearl into small pieces.
(b) Cut it out.
(c) Sand it out.
(d) Nothing.

3. What sea is close to Ramun's town?
(a) The Dead Sea.
(b) None, there is not a sea close to Ramun's town.
(c) The Vermillion Sea.
(d) The Black Sea.

4. What do Luzon and Ramun sight traveling behind them as they row toward La Paz?
(a) A shark.
(b) Manta Diablo.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A whale.

5. How many eyes is the Manta Diablo said to have?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it like when Ramun and his father try to walk home with the pearl?

2. How many carats is Soto's pearl?

3. What is Soto's response to Ramun's favor?

4. Is Soto Luzon older or younger than Ramun?

5. Luzon cautions Ramun against talking too much where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ramun's father give the pearl to the church?

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

3. Which characters from the story ride in the Santa Theresa boat from the Salazar fleet?

4. According to Ramun's mother, what does the Manta Diablo look like?

5. Using descriptions from the text, describe how a boat in the Salazar fleet looks.

6. What is the first thing Ramun's father says to the other pearl dealers?

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

8. In Soto Luzon's lagoon, who listens and becomes angry if the people talk too much?

9. What tradition does Soto Luzon do every time he passes the cave?

10. What does Ramun write in the ledger at the shop while he waits for his father's fleet to return?

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