The Pearl

### Where is The Pearl set?

* Mexico

### What stings Coyotito?

A scorpion

### With what does Kino offer to pay the doctor?

Eight small pearls

### How does Kino react when the doctor snubs him?

He strikes the front gate with his fists, bloodying his knuckles

### What does Juana use as a poultice for Coyotito’s wound?

Seaweed

### How did Kino acquire his canoe?

He inherited it

### For what does Juana pray when she is in the canoe?

A big pearl

### Which of the following is not on the list of things Kino plans to buy with his newfound wealth?

A sailboat

### How does the doctor treat Coyotito’s scorpion wound?

With a capsule filled with powder

### Where does Kino hide the pearl during the night?

Beneath his sleeping mat

### What is the name of the town where Kino first attempts to sell his pearl?

La Paz

### What is the first pearl dealer’s nervous habit?

He manipulates a coin in his hands

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### What is the best offer Kino gets for his pearl?

os 1,500 pes

### What reason does the dealer give for not liking Kino’s pearl?

It is too large

### How does Kino decide to make money when he realizes that the local pearl dealers are lowballing him?

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By traveling to the capital to sell his pearl

### What does Juana propose to do with the pearl?

Throw it back into the sea

### How does Kino react when Juana attempts to steal the pearl from him?

He punches her in the head and then kicks her

### Why must Kino and his family flee from their neighborhood?

Because Kino kills a man

### Where do Kino and Juana first take refuge after their house burns down?

At Juan Tomás’s house

### Where do Kino and Juana flee to escape the trackers?

Up the mountain

### What does Kino do to conceal himself from the trackers?

He strips naked

### For what do the trackers mistake Coyotito’s cry?

A coyote’s cry

### How does Kino rid himself of the trackers?

He kills them

### How does Coyotito die?

He is shot

### What does Kino do with the pearl at the novella’s end?

He throws it back into the sea