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The Pearl Part One Chapter 3 Questions
Please answer all the questions on lined paper and in complete sentences. Make sure to incorporate any quotes given and add more. Remember to explain the importance to story - why, so what?
1. How is “a town like a colonial animal” (21)?
2. What does the priest think of when he hears about The Pearl of the World?
3. What does the doctor think of?
4. What do the beggars think of?
5. What do the “men who bought pearls from the fishers” (22) think of?
6. What is the secret truth about the pearl buyers?
7. How did Kino become “curiously every man’s enemy” (23)?
8. What things does Kino plan to do now that he is rich?
9. What does Kino’s statement that: “these things will make us free because he will know—he will know and through him we will know” (26) mean?
10. How does the priest consider and treat Kino and his people?
11. What does the priest tell Kino about his name?
12. Why does the priest use old fashioned language such as “‘thou art” (27)
13. What song accompanies the priest’s arrival?
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The Pearl Part Two Questions Chapter Three
14. What might “[t]he gods take their revenge on a man if he is successful through his own efforts” (29) mean?
15. What physical reaction does Kino have when he sees the doctor and the servant arrive?
16. Why does the doctor move “his small black doctor’s bag about so that the light of the lamp fell upon it” (30)?
17. Why couldn’t Kino “take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this [doctor]’s possible knowledge” (30)?
18. What does the doctor do to treat Coyotito?
19. How might the doctor know that “the scorpion poison” will make the baby vomit an hour after visiting?
20. Why does the doctor hold Kino’s gaze when he offers to “put [the pearl] in [his] safe” (35)?
21. What does Kino dream about that night?
22. What wakes Kino up?
23. Explain: “‘This pearl is like a sin! It will destroy us...[t]hrow it away...break it between stones. Let us bury it and forget the place. Let us throw it back into the sea. It has brought evil. Kino, my husband, it will destroy us’” (38).
Section:
Date:
The Pearl Part One Chapter 3 Questions
Please answer all the questions on lined paper and in complete sentences. Make sure to incorporate any quotes given and add more. Remember to explain the importance to story - why, so what?
1. How is “a town like a colonial animal” (21)?
2. What does the priest think of when he hears about The Pearl of the World?
3. What does the doctor think of?
4. What do the beggars think of?
5. What do the “men who bought pearls from the fishers” (22) think of?
6. What is the secret truth about the pearl buyers?
7. How did Kino become “curiously every man’s enemy” (23)?
8. What things does Kino plan to do now that he is rich?
9. What does Kino’s statement that: “these things will make us free because he will know—he will know and through him we will know” (26) mean?
10. How does the priest consider and treat Kino and his people?
11. What does the priest tell Kino about his name?
12. Why does the priest use old fashioned language such as “‘thou art” (27)
13. What song accompanies the priest’s arrival?
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Section:
Date:
The Pearl Part Two Questions Chapter Three
14. What might “[t]he gods take their revenge on a man if he is successful through his own efforts” (29) mean?
15. What physical reaction does Kino have when he sees the doctor and the servant arrive?
16. Why does the doctor move “his small black doctor’s bag about so that the light of the lamp fell upon it” (30)?
17. Why couldn’t Kino “take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this [doctor]’s possible knowledge” (30)?
18. What does the doctor do to treat Coyotito?
19. How might the doctor know that “the scorpion poison” will make the baby vomit an hour after visiting?
20. Why does the doctor hold Kino’s gaze when he offers to “put [the pearl] in [his] safe” (35)?
21. What does Kino dream about that night?
22. What wakes Kino up?
23. Explain: “‘This pearl is like a sin! It will destroy us...[t]hrow it away...break it between stones. Let us bury it and forget the place. Let us throw it back into the sea. It has brought evil. Kino, my husband, it will destroy us’” (38).
- What does Kino mean by “‘[o]ur son must go to school. He must break out of the pot that holds us in” (38-39)?
- Explain “[the pearl]’s warm lucence promised a poultice against illness and a wall against insult. It closed a door on hunger” (39).
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