The Pearl 4-6 Review

Question 1

stalwart

Answer 1

having physical strength

Question 2

benign

Answer 2

not causing harm

Question 3

legerdemain

Answer 3

trickery with your hands

Question 4

coagulating

Answer 4

transforming

Question 5

lathargy

Answer 5

sluggishness

Question 6

bared

Answer 6

exposed to view

Question 7

edifice

Answer 7

a tall building

Question 8

lament

Answer 8

to mourn the dead

Question 9

leprosy

Answer 9

a chronic, mildly contagious disease

Question 10

monotonously

Answer 10

over and over again

Question 11

waning

Answer 11

moon gradually decreasing in size

Question 12

monolithic

Answer 12

massive; solid

Question 13

irresolution

Answer 13

unsure of how to act or proceed

Question 14

germane

Answer 14

relevant to an issue

Question 15

The effects the pearl has on Kino…

Answer 15

Kino disrupts the “natural” order of things in La Paz. Neighbors around him worry and hope that greed does not overcome him.

Question 16

What did the Pearl Agents promise to do for the villagers?

Answer 16

promised to gather all the pearls and sell them at the capital and come back with money

but the pearl agents never came back

Question 17

What is the concept of being “faithful to your post” given by the priest?

Answer 17

nobody should try to step out of line and change or else there will be consequences

Question 18

How did the priest oppress the villagers?

Answer 18

come every year to give a sermon so that Kino’s people stays lower class and never try to seek fortune

Question 19

What do the fearful villagers say after Kino had dealt with the pearl buyers?

Answer 19

they’re afraid that they may have been cheated their entire lives, and maybe Kino had cut off his own head

Question 20

What do the less fearful villagers say about Kino’s dealings with the pearl buyers?

Answer 20

they say that Kino was brave and fierce, and that they may all profit from his strength

Question 21

classism

Answer 21

Discrimination or prejudice that is based on social class.

Question 22

Why does Juan Tomas fear for Kino?

Answer 22

Kino had defied the structure and way of life

Question 23

What does Kino repeatedly tell Juana after she begs him to destroy the pearl?

Answer 23

he is a Man

Question 24

Why does Juana accept the fact that Kino was all violent and murderour toward her?

Answer 24

because she knows she did wrong by disobeying her husband

Question 25

Kino repeatedly tells Juana that he is a man to…

Answer 25

reinforce the idea that he is in charge

Question 26

Although Juana is aware that Kino is a man and in charge, she also acknowledges that

Answer 26

the qualities of women being cautious with good reasoning can save them from Kino’s manliness

Question 27

What are the 2 figures lying in the path that Juana sees?

Answer 27

Kino and an attacker that he had killed

Question 28

When Kino kills a man Juana determines that…

Answer 28

the old life is gone forever

Question 29

Kino wants to defend himself by saying its self-defense. Why is Juana so against it?

Answer 29

no one will believe him after what he did to the pearl buyers. so, they must flee

Question 30

Kino is mad that there is a hole in his canoe, why?

Answer 30

a boat cannot defend itself and does not heal.

Question 31

What does Kino say about the pearl when he talks to Juan Tomas before he left for the capital?

Answer 31

the pearl is his soul, and if he gave it up, he would lose his soul

Question 32

What does Juan Tomas do to mislead the neighbors about Kino’s death?

Answer 32

tells different stories, leading people to think that Kino and his family is dead

Question 33

What does Juan Tomas give to Kino before he goes on his trip?

Answer 33

a machete; hunting knife

Question 34

Where is Kino and his family headed to?

Answer 34

Loreto

Question 35

What are the conditions of the desert when Kino and Juana start traveling by foot?

Answer 35

it’s windy and dark

Question 36

What song plays in Kino’s ears as they set foot along the journey

Answer 36

Song of the Pearl

Question 37

How does Kino prove that the pearl is not valueless?

Answer 37

people trying to steal it

Question 38

Kino looks into the pearl for comfort during their journey, but what does he see instead?

Answer 38

sinister things; the dead body Kino killed, Juana’s beaten face, Coyotito’s sickened face after consuming the doctor’s medicine

Question 39

music of the pearl became what with music of evil?

Answer 39

interwoven

Question 40

The three trackers, one of them is on ____ and the other two are on ____

Answer 40

horse, foot

Question 41

Calling the trackers as sensitive as hounds means?

Answer 41

they were good at hunting

Question 42

Kino panics and decides to go to…

Answer 42

the mountains

Question 43

Kino says that he will go alone, while Coyotito and Juana hide. What’s Juana’s response?

Answer 43

she wants to go with him and disobeys him once more

Question 44

What is Kino’s plan when ambushing them?

Answer 44

take out the watcher with the rifle first, then the rest

Question 45

How does Kino climb down the mountain?

Answer 45

naked, using his dark skin as camoflauge, with his large hunting knife looped around his neck and settled on his back

Question 46

The trackers hear a cry and think it is a ____, but it really is just _____

Answer 46

coyote; Coyotito crying

Question 47

The novella describes Kino as…

Answer 47

a machine with no feelings and one goal to kill

Question 48

What did he do to the watcher and others?

Answer 48

watcher: stabbed neck and took rifle

attacker: stabbed on the head

attacker: shot between the eyes

Question 49

What does Kino hear after his killing spree?

Answer 49

the cry of death

Question 50

What did Kino and Juana have when they returned to the village after their failed journey?

Answer 50

Kino had a rifle, Juana had her shawl over her shoulder like a sack

Question 51

What direction do Juana and Kino go during their escape after the fire?

Answer 51

North