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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 Juana put as a poultice on Coyotito's sting?
(a) Salt water.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Brown seaweed.
(d) A dead fish.

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

3. Why does Kino suddenly become afraid after talking about Coyotito's education in Chapter 3?
(a) He has never said so many words together in his life.
(b) Juana starts screaming about the scorpion poison.
(c) A bad person enters his hut.
(d) The neighbors try to steal his pearl from him then.

4. What seems to carry the sound of evil in the night wind to Kino?
(a) The crackle of the fire.
(b) The wolves howling.
(c) The conch shell horns.
(d) The crickets and frogs.

5. What is Kino's house crowded with after the pearl's discovery?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) Oyster shells.
(c) doctors.
(d) Brown seaweed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kino's first promise spoken out loud when asked about the pearl?

2. What color is the water in Chapter 2 as Kino is diving?

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

4. Who visits Kino as Juana is making dinner in Chapter 3?

5. What is Kino's wildest hope for Coyotito with the pearl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kino dream about in regards to the pearl?

2. How does the narrator describe Juana’s appearance?

3. What does Juana do as soon as the scorpion bites Coyotito? Is this effective?

4. What does the town call the pearl when they hear about it? Why?

5. What does Juana ask for when Coyotito is stung? Why?

6. Who are the only people happy about Kino's pearl? Why are they happy?

7. How does Juana merge different belief systems in the novel?

8. Why does Kino respect his canoe so much?

9. Why does Juana call for Kino when she sees Coyotito in Chapter 2?

10. What are the two colors that make up the canoes that line the beach? What do you think these colors represent symbolically?

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