This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Pearl – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Pearl Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one of these is NOT something Kino sees for his future in the Pearl? A) Getting married to Juana in the church. B) Coyotito going to school. C) A rifle. D) His family wearing new clothes and shoes on their feet. E) A new canoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A new canoe. 2. What is a symbol? A) The way the author would like you to feel?. B) The problem in the story. C) The author's attitude about a subject or the character. D) An object that represents an idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An object that represents an idea. 3. At the end of the chapter, Kino and Juana ..... A) Both died in the house fire. B) Both left for the capital. C) Went to town to sell the pearl. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both left for the capital. 4. Which is not a character in the story? A) Evil. B) The detective. C) Coyotito. D) Juana. E) The doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The detective. 5. Reassuring means A) Making someone upset. B) Making someone feel less afraid, upset or doubtful. C) Making someone feel insecure. D) Making someone sit down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Making someone feel less afraid, upset or doubtful. 6. The doctor is a colonist and will not treat the baby. He is only interested in ..... A) Helping others. B) Making friends. C) Money. D) The baby. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Money. 7. What bad thing happened to make Juana want to throw away the pearl? A) She decided that wealth only brought evil. B) Her family had been attacked. C) Someone comes to steal the pearl. Kino knifed him, but Kino got knocked over the head with something. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. Who is Kino afraid of? A) The pearl buyers. B) Everyone. C) Juana. D) Satan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everyone. 9. What does everyone remember in the town of La Paz? A) The day Juana and Kino came back. B) The day the doctor came o the brush houses. C) The day the houses burned. D) The day Juana and Kino left the town. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The day Juana and Kino came back. 10. "She(Juana)looked up at him, her eyes as cold as the eyes of a lioness. This was Juana's first baby ..... " We can infer that Juana feels ..... A) Scared. B) Protective. C) Violent. D) Angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protective. 11. Which statement is TRUE about Coyotito? A) He swam in the ocean. B) He walked to the mountains with his parents. C) He died from a gunshot wound. D) He was bitten by a spider. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He died from a gunshot wound. 12. (The doctor) "Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for 'little Indians? I am a doctor, not a veterinary." From the doctor's words, we can infer all EXCEPT ..... A) He knows he can't help the baby. B) He thinks that he's better than Kino's people. C) He thinks of Kino's people as animals. D) He thinks he has better things to do. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He knows he can't help the baby. 13. " ..... the indigence came humbly to the door ..... Kino felt weak and afraid and angry at the same time. Rage and terror went together." We can infer ..... A) Kino hates the doctor. B) The doctor will be polite. C) Kino will be impolite. D) Kino may attack the doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kino hates the doctor. 14. "To get him(the doctor)would be a remarkable thing. The doctor never came to the cluster of brush houses." We can infer ..... A) Poor neighborhoods fear doctors. B) There is hope that the doctor will help. C) The doctor only helps rich people. D) People in brush houses don't like doctors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The doctor only helps rich people. 15. When Kino's canoe is destroyed, what does that symbolize? A) His anger toward the ones who tried to steal the pearl. B) The foreshadowing of his new wealth. C) The breaking away from his culture. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The breaking away from his culture. 16. Which of the following IS NOT rising action? A) We meet Kino, Juana, and Coyotito. B) Kino finds the great pearl. C) The doctor refuses to treat Coyotito's scorpion sting. D) Coyotito is stung by a scorpion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We meet Kino, Juana, and Coyotito. 17. The priest tells Kino's people to ..... A) Try hard to be more successful. B) Stay in the station where God placed them. C) Learn how to read. D) Give a lot of money to the church. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stay in the station where God placed them. 18. What is a parable? A) A form of figurative language. B) The main character in a novel. C) A short story in which people, things, and events have a symbolic meaning. D) A short story that teaches a moral lesson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A short story that teaches a moral lesson. 19. What does the doctor daydream about? A) Europe. B) London, England. C) France. D) The ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) France. 20. (p.17) What is Juana's view of luck? A) She thinks you are either born lucky or you are born unlucky. B) She thinks luck is essential in healing Coyotito. C) She thinks luck doesn't exist. D) She thinks true strength comes from making your own luck. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She thinks luck is essential in healing Coyotito. 21. After the pearl buyers cheat him, what does Kino do? A) He decides to go to the capital and sell his pearl. B) He decides to donate the pearl to the church. C) He shares the news with his neighbors and warns them about the pearl buyers. D) He goes into a rage and hurts some of the pearl buyers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He decides to go to the capital and sell his pearl. 22. Hope is a common theme in The Pearl. Which quote from chapter 3 is an example of the speaker displaying hope for a better future? A) "What will you do now that you have become a rich man?". B) "This pearl is like a sin. It will destroy us!". C) "This is our one chance. Our son must go to school. He must break out of the pot that holds us in.". D) "When I have sold my pearl, I will pay you.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "This is our one chance. Our son must go to school. He must break out of the pot that holds us in.". 23. How does Kino keep the pearl safe? A) He keeps it in his pocket. B) He keeps it in a safe in the bank. C) He hides it in Juan Tomas's house. D) He buries it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He buries it. 24. Which is NOT true about the trackers? A) They follow them up the mountainside. B) The can follow people basically anywhere. C) There are three of them. D) They see Juana, then Kino. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They see Juana, then Kino. 25. Which statement is FALSE about Kino? A) He hopes that Coyotito will learn to read and write. B) He asked Juan Tomas to sell the pearl for him. C) He killed some men who wanted to steal the pearl. D) He refused to sell the pearl for a low price. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He asked Juan Tomas to sell the pearl for him. 26. If you have avarice, A) You have a strong desire to have or get money. B) You have a strong desire to make others happy. C) You have a need to breathe fresh air. D) You have a fear of spiders. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You have a strong desire to have or get money. 27. Kino listens to the songs of his people. What are these songs? A) Billboard's Top 100. B) Hymns from All God's People Sing. C) Music from religious ceremonies. D) Ideas of everything they saw or thought or did or heard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ideas of everything they saw or thought or did or heard. 28. Kino's reaction to Juana taking the pearl A) Struck her and kicked her. B) Begged her to stay. C) Helped her throw the pearl back. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Struck her and kicked her. 29. " ..... they(beggars) knew the doctor. They knew his ignorance, his cruelty, his avarice, his appetites, his sins." We can infer all about the doctor EXCEPT ..... A) He is unkind. B) He is greedy. C) He is bad. D) He is respected. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is respected. 30. Juana fears the trackers will see Kino in the night because of [these]. A) Their cigarettes. B) His white clothes. C) His dark skin. D) The glimmers from the pearl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His white clothes. 31. What is Steinbeck's tone as he describes the Song of the Pearl That Might Be? A) Whimsical. B) Hopeful. C) Pessimistic. D) Exhausted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hopeful. 32. Which statement is FALSE about the doctor? A) He is a wealthy man with servants. B) He is very thin and often exercises. C) He dreams of returning to Paris, France. D) He refused to see Coyotito after the scorpion sting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is very thin and often exercises. 33. In chapter 3, the pearl symbolizes ..... A) Kino's greed and desire for a better future for his family. B) How community comes together when someone finds something valuable. C) Safety for Kino's family. D) Kino's revenge against his enemies in the village. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kino's greed and desire for a better future for his family. 34. What happened when Kino's people hired agents to sell the pearls in the city? A) They agents stole their pearls. B) They made more money. C) They made less money. D) The patron killed the agents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They agents stole their pearls. 35. "His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh and his mouth drooped with discontent." We can infer ..... A) The doctor is handsome. B) The doctor is healthy. C) The doctor is not happy. D) The doctor is content. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The doctor is not happy. 36. Kino wears his hat at a tilt because ..... A) He wants to look serious and agressive. B) He wants to look rich. C) He wants to look handsome. D) He wants to show respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He wants to look serious and agressive. 37. Which statement is TRUE about the pearl buyers? A) They had seen many pearls as large as Kino's pearl. B) They wanted to give Kino a fair price for the pearl. C) They are honest, hardworking men. D) They had decided to cheat Kino before they saw the pearl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They had decided to cheat Kino before they saw the pearl. 38. How does the priest view Kino and Kino's people? A) He sees them as equals. B) He sees them as children. C) He sees them as superiors. D) He sees them as animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He sees them as children. 39. How does the doctor view Kino and Kino's people? A) He sees them as superiors. B) He sees them as animals. C) He sees them as children. D) He sees them as equals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He sees them as animals. 40. What is the resolution (end) to the story? A) Coyotito is killed. B) Juan Tomas and Apolonia greet Kino and Juana when they return to the village. C) Kino kills the three trackers. D) Kino throws the pearl back into the sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kino throws the pearl back into the sea. 41. How does Kino feel about the pearl at the end of the chapter, after the robber visits? A) He thinks is evil an unlucky. B) He thinks it is lucky and hopeful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He thinks it is lucky and hopeful. 42. Who is Juana's foil character? A) The doctor. B) Apollonia. C) The beggars. D) The pearl buyers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apollonia. 43. What are static characters? A) Characters who are not in the book. B) Characters who stay the same throughout the book. C) Characters who are the main character in the book. D) Characters who change throughout the book. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characters who stay the same throughout the book. 44. Who doesn't go with Kino to sell the pearl? A) The town's people. B) Juana and Coyotito. C) Juan Thomas and Apalonia. D) The priest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The priest. 45. Why does the doctor eventually come to help with Coyotito? A) The doctor comes because he, too, has heard that Kino has a great pearl. B) Because he want to help and feels sorrowful. C) He is asked by his wife to help. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The doctor comes because he, too, has heard that Kino has a great pearl. 46. "She(Juana)put her lips down over the puncture and sucked hard and spat ..... " From this we can infer ..... A) Juana has had medical training. B) Juana doesn't understand how scorpion stings work. C) Juana has been taught what to do for scorpion stings. D) Juana is an irresponsible mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juana has been taught what to do for scorpion stings. 47. (At the doctor's house) "They could hear the splashing water and the singing of caged birds ..... they could smell the frying of good bacon ..... " We can infer ..... A) The doctor has a fountain. B) The doctor eats birds. C) The doctor's breakfast is better than Kino's. D) The doctor is rich. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The doctor eats birds. 48. What is the main conflict that Kino faces in chapter 3? A) The village priest wants Kino to give the pearl to the church. B) Kino's brother, Juan Tomas, wants half of the money from the sale of the pearl. C) Kino wants wealth and education for his family, but their safety quickly becomes a concern. D) Kino wants 1 million dollars for the pearl, but no buyer will offer him that much. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kino wants wealth and education for his family, but their safety quickly becomes a concern. 49. What is one thing Kino would like to do once he sells the pearl? A) Move to the city. B) Marry Juana in a church. C) Get a new brush house. D) Buy diamonds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marry Juana in a church. 50. How did Juana know their old life was gone forever? A) The pearl was gone forever. B) Kino had killed a man. C) Juan Thomas told her so. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kino had killed a man. 51. Who/what kills Coyotito? A) Evil. B) Juana. C) The tracker. D) Dehydration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tracker. 52. Why was Kino happy about the sand being blown against his ankles? A) It would cover their tracks. B) It scratched an itch. C) It soothed his mind. D) It looked like snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It would cover their tracks. 53. Which statement is TRUE about the doctor? A) He was not concerned about whether a sick person could pay him. B) He told Kino he could keep the pearl safe for him. C) He was a young, thin, strong man. D) He often treated the families in the brush houses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He told Kino he could keep the pearl safe for him. 54. "A town is a thing like a colonial animal." ..... What literary device is represented in this quote? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 55. Juana takes the pearl ..... A) To sell the pearl. B) To hide it from Kino. C) To throw it in the ocean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To throw it in the ocean. 56. After Kino kills the last tracker the narrator says that Kino heard [what] from the cave? A) The cries of his ancestors. B) The cry of death. C) Coyotito crying. D) Juana laughing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The cry of death. 57. The pearl buyers do all the following EXCEPT ..... A) Hide the pretty pearls. B) Give Kino a fair offer. C) Lie about the value. D) Call the pearl fool's gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Give Kino a fair offer. 58. Juana applies her own remedies to Coyotito's wound. So why does she still want the doctor to help? A) Because Kino wants the doctor's help. B) Because Coyotito's wound became infected. C) Because his medicine has more authority. D) Because the doctor has always been kind to the "little Indians". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because his medicine has more authority. 59. What does Kino tell the buyers when they tried to cheat him? A) He will think about their offers. B) He will take the pearl to the capital city to sell. C) He will kill them. D) He will throw the pearl in the ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He will take the pearl to the capital city to sell. 60. When does Kino first hear the Song of Evil? A) When Kino sees his broken canoe. B) When he tries to sell the pearl. C) When the scorpion stings Coyotito. D) When the doctor's servant turns him away at the gate. 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