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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 Ramun's mother threaten him with when he misbehaves as a child?
(a) Beatings.
(b) Manta Diablo.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Chores.

2. What name is Gaspar Ruiz also known as?
(a) The Indian.
(b) Salazar.
(c) Sevillano.
(d) Seville de Paz.

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

4. What do Luzon and Ramun sight traveling behind them as they row toward La Paz?
(a) A whale.
(b) Manta Diablo.
(c) A shark.
(d) Nothing.

5. How many people see Manta Diablo?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) One.
(c) Three-hundred.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ramun do with the oyster when he realizes that it is too heavy to lift into his canoe?

2. Ramun and Luzon leave Luzon's house without doing what?

3. What are the boats named after?

4. How many pesos does Mr. Salazar want for the pearl?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the four other major pearl dealers from La Paz carry with them when they visit Ramun's house?

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

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

4. Why does Soto Luzon not help Ramun when Ramun dives in the cave?

5. What tradition does Soto Luzon do every time he passes the cave?

6. How does Ramun know that Soto Luzon is coming to visit Ramun at the pearl business?

7. Why does Ramun put the small pearls he found in the other half of the oyster shell?

8. Using descriptions from the text, describe how a boat in the Salazar fleet looks.

9. Describe the duties Ramun had to do when he sailed on the Santa Theresa with his father.

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

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