The Pearl part 1 worksheet

Directions: Use blue or black ink for your answers. As part of a complete answer, incorporate the question as part of the answer.

1. Do you think Kino should have thrown the pearl back into the sea as Juana urged him to do? Why or why not?
2. Compare Kino’s Song of the Family with the Song of Evil.
3. What harm comes to Coyotito?
4. Why does Juana wish for a great pearl? Why does she feel that it is “not good to want a thing too much?”
5. How do people’s attitudes toward Kino change after he finds “the Pearl of the World.”
6. What is the doctor’s attitude toward Kino and his people?
7. Explain how the news of Kino’s find stirs up something “infinitely black and evil in the town.”
8. In what ways does luck bring Kino and Juana “bitter friends”?
9. By the end of chapter 3, what changes have come about in Kino?
10. How does Juana’s attitude toward the pearl change?