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Kino listens to the songs of his people. What are these songs?

• Billboard's Top 100

• Hymns from All God's People Sing

• Music from religious ceremonies

• Ideas of everything they saw or thought or did or heard

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What did Coyotito do when Juana leaned over and said a little reassuring word?

• Cried because he was afraid

• Went back to sleep feeling safe

• Talked to her with baby noises

• Allower her to put medicine on his scorpion sting

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"Kino watched as two roosters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings and neck feathers ruffed out. It would be a clumsy fight. They were not game chickens" (4).

What does feinted mean?

• pecked at one another

• fell down unconscious

• appeared to box one another

• started to dance

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In the quoted passage in question 3, what does Steinbeck foreshadow about Kino's fighting abilities?

• He looks like a warrior.

• He could use a bow and arrow.

• He won most fights.

• He was not prepared as a fighter.

Which character does not seem scared as the scorpion moves delicately down the rope?

• the scorpion

• Coyotito

• Juana

• Kino

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Why was there a procession from Kino's hut to the doctor's house?

• The neighbors were concerned about Coyotito.

• They were celebrating the doctor's skills with a parade.

• Few of their people visited the doctor.

• Kino had asked them to come and pray at the church.

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Which of the following details is not part of the doctor's house?

• religious pictures

• silver tray with china dishes

• gardens with fountains

• walls made from brush and straw

When the doctor tells his servant, "I am a doctor, not a veterinary," what does he mean?

• He isn't supposed to treat animals.

• He thinks Kino's people are like animals.

• He is proud to show his skills for healing anything.

• He was not a soldier.

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Why is the canoe from his grandfather Kino's greatest possession?

• It has pearl decorations.

• He had helped his grandfather build it.

• It was a "bulwark against starvation;" it helped him provide food for his family.

• It gave him a way to escape the community and be alone,

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Juana did not pray directly for a cure for the baby. What was her prayer?

• that they would find a pearl good enough to pay the doctor

• that the doctor would come to their home

• that the doctor would take their little pearls as payment

• that they would have a safe hunt for pearls that day

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