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Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is Juana’s relationship with nature in the novel?
  1. She is afraid of nature
  2. She is in harmony with nature
  3. She tries to control nature
  4. She is indifferent to nature
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is Kino’s occupation?
  1. Farmer
  2. Fisherman
  3. Pearl diver
  4. Doctor
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is the Doctor’s role in the community?
  1. He is the leader of the village
  2. He is a pearl diver
  3. He is a doctor
  4. He is a fisherman
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is Juana’s role in the family?
  1. She is the breadwinner
  2. She takes care of Coyotito
  3. She makes the decisions
  4. She is in charge of selling the pearl
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What is the Dealers’ attitude towards the pearl?
  1. They see it as a blessing
  2. They see it as a curse
  3. They are indifferent to it
  4. They want to buy it immediately
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What does the Doctor do when he visits Kino’s house?
  1. He tries to buy the pearl
  2. He treats Coyotito
  3. He warns Kino about the dangers of the pearl
  4. He congratulates Kino on his find
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is Juana’s ultimate fate in the novel?
  1. She leaves Kino
  2. She dies
  3. She stays with Kino
  4. She becomes wealthy
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
Who is Juan Tomás?
  1. Kino’s brother
  2. Kino’s father
  3. Kino’s son
  4. Kino’s friend
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What does Juana do when Kino decides to attack the trackers?
  1. She tries to stop him
  2. She helps him
  3. She hides with Coyotito
  4. She prays for him
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is the Doctor’s attitude towards Kino and the other villagers?
  1. He respects them and treats them as equals
  2. He looks down on them and treats them as inferiors
  3. He is afraid of them
  4. He is indifferent to them
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is the Dealers’ relationship with Kino?
  1. They are friends
  2. They are enemies
  3. They are rivals
  4. They are indifferent to each other
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What does the doctor do to Coyotito?
  1. He cures Coyotito’s scorpion stingvv
  2. He refuses to treat Coyotito
  3. He gives Coyotito a potion that makes him sick
  4. He teaches Coyotito to read
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is the Doctor’s initial reaction when Kino needs help for Coyotito?
  1. He immediately goes to help
  2. He refuses to help because Kino can’t pay
  3. He is not in town
  4. He sends his assistant to help
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
How does the Doctor react when Kino can’t pay him?
  1. He treats Coyotito for free
  2. He refuses to treat Coyotito
  3. He agrees to be paid later
  4. He takes the pearl as payment
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is the Dealers’ role in the community?
  1. They are the leaders of the village
  2. They are pearl divers
  3. They are pearl buyers
  4. They are fishermen
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
How does Juana react when Kino is attacked?
  1. She runs away
  2. She fights the attackers
  3. She helps Kino
  4. She hides with Coyotito
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is Juan Tomás’s role in the community?
  1. He is the leader of the village
  2. He is a pearl diver
  3. He is a fisherman
  4. He is a doctor
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What does Juana do to help Coyotito after he is stung by a scorpion?
  1. She sucks the venom out of the wound
  2. She prays for him
  3. She takes him to the doctor
  4. All of the above
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is the Doctor’s dream?
  1. To find a bigger pearl than Kino’s
  2. To return to a bourgeois European lifestyle
  3. To become the richest man in La Paz
  4. To cure all diseases
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is the Dealers’ strategy for buying pearls?
  1. They always offer a fair price
  2. They try to cheat the villagers
  3. They only buy the largest pearls
  4. They refuse to buy pearls from villagers
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