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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)
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 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
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What does Juana try to do with the pearl?
  1. She tries to sell it
  2. She tries to hide it
  3. She tries to throw it into the sea
  4. She tries to give it to the church
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What does the Doctor represent in the novel?
  1. The innocence of the villagers
  2. The greed and corruption of colonial society
  3. The power of nature
  4. The dangers of wealth
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What happens to Coyotito at the beginning of the novel?
  1. He finds a pearl
  2. He is stung by a scorpion
  3. He learns to read
  4. He gets lost
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What is the Dealers’ attitude towards Kino and the other villagers?
  1. They respect them and treat them as equals
  2. They look down on them and treat them as inferiors
  3. They are afraid of them
  4. They are indifferent to them
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What advice does Juan Tomás give to Kino?
  1. He tells Kino to sell the pearl in the city
  2. He tells Kino to throw the pearl back into the sea
  3. He warns Kino about the dangers of the pearl
  4. He tells Kino to keep the pearl
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
How does the Doctor treat Coyotito?
  1. He gives Coyotito a potion that makes him sick
  2. He cures Coyotito’s scorpion sting
  3. He refuses to treat Coyotito
  4. He gives Coyotito a placebo
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
Who are Coyotito’s parents?
  1. Kino and Juana
  2. Juan Tomas and Apolonia
  3. The doctor and the priest
  4. The pearl buyers
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What do the Dealers do when Kino refuses to sell the pearl?
  1. They increase their offer
  2. They try to steal the pearl
  3. They respect Kino’s decision
  4. They plot against Kino
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 does Juan Tomás do when Kino and Juana leave for the city?
  1. He goes with them
  2. He stays in the village
  3. He follows them secretly
  4. He tries to stop them
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What does Juana do when Coyotito is stung by a scorpion?
  1. She prays for him
  2. She sucks the venom out
  3. She takes him to the doctor
  4. All of the above
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What does the Doctor do when he learns about Kino’s pearl?
  1. He tries to steal the pearl
  2. He offers to buy the pearl
  3. He comes to treat Coyotito
  4. He warns Kino about the dangers of the pearl
Grade 9 Short Stories (Fiction)
What do the Dealers do when Kino finds the pearl?
  1. They try to steal the pearl
  2. They congratulate Kino
  3. They show interest in the pearl
  4. They warn Kino about the dangers of the pearl
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