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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Juana keep Coyotito quiet during the day in Chapter 5?

2. What does the welcoming pearl buyer put by his desk in Chapter 4?

3. As Kino is preparing to leave in Chapter 5, Where does Juan tell Kino to avoid?

4. Which song does Kino not sing in his head throughout the novel?

5. Where does Kino's family hide in the daytime while they are running away?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Juana and Kino run in the wagon tracks?

2. Why do all the divers leave their canoes on the beach the morning after Kino's big pearl find?

3. How do the pearl buyers operate to buy a pearl?

4. Describe the place where Juana and Kino spend the day in Chapter 6 while they are on the run.

5. Where does Kino want to go after he leaves Juan Tomas's house in Chapter 5?

6. Where does Kino tell Apolonia that he is not dead?

7. What happened before when the pearl buyers got together and tried to have a pearl representative take their goods to the capital?

8. What motivation do the pearl buyers have to purchase the great pearl at a low price?

9. What does Juana do when she senses Kino running after her in the dark when she is going to throw the pearl back into the sea?

10. Why does Kino take off his clothes in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The town is described as a colonial animal. How does this metaphor affect the novel?

1.) Describe how news travels in the town.

2.) Describe how the town works together in certain situations. Does it seem that there is a division between Kino and his family versus the town and villagers? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Ignorance is an unfortunate partner to racism in this novel. How does ignorance play an important role in how Kino reacts to his environment?

1.) How does Kino react when the priest mentions knowledge from the book? What is his solution?

2.) Why is Juana's seaweed poultice not seen as a valid treatment for Coyotito?

3.) Why does Kino want Coyotito to go to school?

Essay Topic 3

Social status is a common theme in the novel. What are the ways that Kino is warned that striving to break out of his destined social status in life would be disastrous? What impact do the priest's stories and the story of the pearl buyer for the villagers have on Kino?

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