The Pearl 2

What do the songs represent? 

• Kino likes to get his jam on.
• What Kino's thinking and feeling -- his mindset.
• How Juana feels about Kino.
• Coyotito's impending doom. 

Why did the doctor refuse to treat Coyotito at first?

• He had too many other patients to treat.
• He didn't have the proper medicine.
• He was ill.
• He thought of the Indians as animals.

What does the color gray symbolize? 

• The decaying of values, which leads to the death of the family.
• The pearl buyers were right.
• Juana is lying to Kino.
• Coyotito is not really sick.

Why does Juana give Kino the pearl and stay with him in the mountains?

• She wants to destroy her family.
• She is helpless and cannot survive without Kino.
• She wants to preserve the family even as Kino is destroying it.
• She wants to take control.

When Kino says, "I am a man," this symbolizes ... 

• That he's got it going on.
• That he is human.
• That he is trying to convince Juana so she'll back off.
• That he is trying to convince himself that he's not turning into an animal.

What is revealed about the pearl buyers' market?

• It always pays the highest rate.
• The buyers are very competitive.
• The prices are fixed to cheat the Indians.
• It is only open in the morning. 

Juan Tomas says to Kino, "You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life. I am afraid for you." What does this mean? 

• Kino's decision to improve his life will bring evil upon them all.
• The pearl buyers will refuse to buy any more pearls from Kino.
• It is against the law to refuse to sell a pearl outside the village.
• Kino is becoming too greedy.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following was NOT a main conflict in the story?

• Person vs. Person
• Person vs. Nature
• Person vs. Society
• Person vs. Technology

What is a parable? 

• An old story told around a campfire.
• A story passed down through generations that has a moral or teaches a lesson.
• A folktale that always has a happy ending.
• A verbal story passed down through cultures that does not have a moral or does not teach a lesson.

What do their actions with the pearl symbolize?

• That man will always make the right decisions and not become greedy.
• That family and honor is more important than wealth.
• That pearl diving is a bad profession.
• That man is superior to animals.