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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 does the Manta Diablo represent to Ramun?
(a) Evil.
(b) Anger.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Manhood.

2. How many times is an item or person paraded around the plaza during the celebration?
(a) Once.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twice.
(d) Zero times.

3. Who is the lone survivor of the Salazar shipwreck?
(a) Soto Luzon.
(b) No one.
(c) Mr. Salazar.
(d) Sevillano.

4. What leaps into the air behind the boat that Ruiz and Ramun are traveling in?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Whales.
(c) Manta Diablo.
(d) Sharks.

5. Whose voice does Ramun hear when he reaches the lagoon?
(a) Manta Diablo's.
(b) His father's.
(c) Luzon's.
(d) Sevillano's.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ramun arrives at the lagoon what is he no longer afraid of?

2. What idea about the black pearl does Gaspar Ruiz scoff at?

3. How many men are lost in the Salazar fleet?

4. What does Ramun offer to take from the Sevillano so he can sleep?

5. How long after the Salazar fleet sets sail, after the La Paz celebration, does the weather change?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Ramun and the Sevillano are heading toward Guaymas to sell the pearl, what response does the Sevillano give Ramun when Ramun asks him if he would like Ramun to take the tiller so the Sevillano can sleep?

2. On the day Ramun returned to La Paz and replaced the pearl in the Madonna's hands, he stated that it was today that he became a man. Why does Ramun feel that this day is the day he earned his manhood?

3. Ramun believes that the pearl caused his father's fleet to wreck, causing the death of his father and several crewmen. The Sevillano feels that a different reason caused the wreck. What reason does the Sevillano give Ramun for the shipwreck?

4. When Ramun returns to the lagoon, why isn't he afraid of the Manta Diablo?

5. Why does Father Gallardo feel that the Pearl of Heaven has already performed a miracle at the celebration for the pearl?

6. How does the Sevillano react when Ramun tells him that it is the Manta Diablo that almost drowned them and their boat?

7. Using details from the text, describe what Ramun did when he returned to La Paz.

8. How do the people of La Paz and the surrounding area travel to the celebration of the Pearl of Heaven?

9. Why does the smallest change in weather make Ramun's mother fearful?

10. What are some of the provisions the Sevillano brings with him when he follows Ramun to the lagoon?

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