D45099-The Pearl - Complete Study Guide
D45099-The Pearl - Complete Study Guide
D45099-The Pearl - Complete Study Guide
STUDY GUIDE
CHAPTER 1
4. What happened to the baby Coyotito, this morning that was different?
8. What do the people in the brush-huts do when Kino and Juana go to the
doctor?
9. Who are the best informed people of the town? Why do they follow Juana and
Kino?
13. What question does the doctor ask his servant about Kino?
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CHAPTER 2
3. What is the one thing of value that Kino owns? Where did he get it? Why is it
so important?
8. Who has become wealthy and powerful because of these pearls and pearl-
divers? What does he do with his wealth?
9. How do the men get pearls and oysters? What do these words suggest?
12. What does the finding of the pearl seem to do for Coyotito?
THE PEARL
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CHAPTER 3
9. Why does Kino allow the doctor to treat the baby when he is almost well?
10. What does the doctor give Coyotito? When does the doctor day the poison of
the scorpion will attack?
13. When the doctor returns, what does he say about Coyotito? What question
does he ask about the pearl?
14. Why does he act as though he knows nothing about the pearl?
15. Between the doctor’s first and second visits, what does the description of the
animal life tell us about the doctor and his treatment of Kino?
16. Is there any evidence Coyotito has recovered before the doctor came?
CHAPTER 4
1. What does everyone know in the town of La Paz this morning? Who
especially is interested?
3. What did the neighbors say they would do if they had the pearl?
5. Does the priest perform marriages and baptize children among the people of
the brush huts?
7. What had Kino’s people tried to do in the old days? What happened? What
did the priest tell them?
9. The pearl buyer who practices legerdemain does what when he sees Kino’s
pearl? What does this signify?
10. What does the pearl buyer offer? What does Kino think is it worth?
14. How long can Kino expect his friends to help him according to Juan Thomas?
15. Kino feels something is awaiting him outside his hut this night? What
happened?
CHSPTER 5
1. What does Juana do with the pearl during the night? What did Kino do? What
kind of action is this?
4. What does Juana find as she returns up the path to her brush hut after being
beaten by Kino?
6. Kino finds a hole in his boat. Why does this enrage him?
7. What decision does Kino come to now that they cannot go by sea?
9. Who did Kino and Juana in his hut and told false information about their
whereabouts? Should his neighbors have helped him?
10. What does Kino tell his brother the pearl has become to him?
THE PEARL
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CHAPTER 6
1. Where does Steinbeck say Kino and Juana are going?
2. How is Kino again like an animal at this point as they leave the brush hut?
5. Kino dreams and awakens. He is uneasy, restless. When he returns to the road,
what does he find?
6. Kino says, “perhaps I should let them take me.” Who goads him into action
again?
10. What is Kino’s idea for Juana and Coyotito? Does she agree?
14. What draws the rifleman’s attention as Kino prepares to attack? What does
the rifleman do? What does Kino do?