View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which boat does Ramun travel on?

2. Who banishes Manta Diablo to the sea?

3. How does Ramun react when his mother tells him stories of Manta Diablo?

4. How many pearls does Soto Luzon bring with him?

5. How does Soto Luzon know that Manta Diablo has departed for the day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Ramun on his 16th birthday?

4. What does Ramun once see his father do to two men who are fighting?

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

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

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

8. What two errands must Soto Luzon take care of before Ramun and Luzon can leave for Luzon's Lagoon?

9. Why doesn't Ramun's father want to take the pearl to Mexico City?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using details from the text, describe Ramun's quest to become a man. What does Ramun overcome to finally feel like a man? Why does Ramun not feel like a man after the other two major tasks he completed in the novel? How are the three major events tied together, resulting in Ramun's attainment of manhood?

Essay Topic 2

Ramun portrays himself as a nice, decent, respectable person, but the reader is shown a darker side to Ramun. Describe the darker sides of Ramun's personality.

Essay Topic 3

What effect do unnamed characters have on the story? Why would the author choose not to name some of the characters?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 561 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample