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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the second person Ramun runs into during his walk home from the celebration?
(a) No one.
(b) Sevillano.
(c) Gaspar Ruiz.
(d) Soto Luzon.

2. How does Ramun feel about Soto's visit?
(a) Thrilled.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Mad.
(d) Ashamed.

3. What opportunity emerges that allows Ramun to convince his father to let him join a pearl diving expedition?
(a) Ramun won a bet.
(b) His father is sick.
(c) One of the sailors is sick.
(d) Ramun never went on a pearl diving expedition with his father.

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

5. One person refuses to join in the celebration of the pearl, what is the person's true "ailment"?
(a) They are happy.
(b) They are out of town.
(c) They are mad.
(d) They are sick with a fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What favor does Ramun ask Soto to do?

2. Pearl diving is the town's major what?

3. A few days after Ramun joins his father's fleet who visits Ramun's father's business?

4. What is paraded around the plaza?

5. What does Ramun's father promise Ramun when he turns sixteen?

(see the answer key)

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