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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is not something the doctor threatens will happen to Coyotito because of the insect sting?
(a) Crumpled Back.
(b) Withered Leg.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Deafness.

2. In Chapter 3, what does the town say that Kino has found?
(a) Money.
(b) A huge fish.
(c) The Pearl of the World.
(d) A large pearl.

3. What stings Coyotito?
(a) A fire ant.
(b) A bee.
(c) A hornet.
(d) A scorpion.

4. What do the villagers not trust to show them clear lines and boundaries?
(a) Their imagination.
(b) The spirits.
(c) Their minds.
(d) Their eyes.

5. What does Coyotito sleep in every night?
(a) A hanging box.
(b) A crib.
(c) On the floor.
(d) With his parents.

6. Which of these things is described in Chapter 2 as being on the bottom of the sea?
(a) Sea horses.
(b) Spotted botete.
(c) Moray eels.
(d) Eel grass.

7. What is the baby's name?
(a) Coyotito.
(b) Little Kino.
(c) Coyote.
(d) Coyo.

8. What song plays when Kino sees Juana making corncakes in Chapter 3?
(a) Song of the Family.
(b) Song of Happiness.
(c) Song of Evil.
(d) Song of the Home.

9. Who knows all the sins of the town?
(a) The doctor.
(b) The monks.
(c) The beggars.
(d) The trackers.

10. Who are the first ones to arrive after Coyotito is stung?
(a) The doctor.
(b) The priest.
(c) Juan Tomas and his wife Apolonia.
(d) The fishermen.

11. Who visits Kino as Juana is making dinner in Chapter 3?
(a) Juan and Apolonia.
(b) Two men; one is the doctor.
(c) Kino's parents.
(d) The priest again.

12. What color is Kino's hair?
(a) He's bald.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blonde.

13. What has brought the King of Spain to higher power?
(a) Money.
(b) Pearls from oysters.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) The gold.

14. How big is Kino's great pearl?
(a) The size of Coyotito's head.
(b) The size of a crab.
(c) The size of a seagull's egg.
(d) The size of a fish.

15. What happened when the pearl buyers gave a fisherman a price that was too low?
(a) He smashed his pearls to bits.
(b) He killed one of the pearl buyers.
(c) He gave his pearls to the church.
(d) He went to the next town and got a better price.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Juana say when she sees the large oyster in Kino's hand in Chapter 2?

2. What does Kino see when he looks at the pearl in Chapter 2?

3. What do the beggars do when they hear about Kino's pearl?

4. What did Kino eat one day that almost killed him?

5. What seems to carry the sound of evil in the night wind to Kino?

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