Characters
Setting
Plot/Events
Steinback
Vocabulary
100
He is the main character who finds the pearl
Who is Kino
100
This is what type of house they live in
What is a brushhouse
100
Juana does this every morning (directed at Kino)
What is looking at him when he awakens
100
This is where Steinback was born
Where is Salinas, California
100
What is the drink Kino has in the morning, milky and made from agave plants
What is pulque
200
This is Kino's wife
Who is Juana
200
This is the country where the Pearl takes place/where the characters live.
What is Mexico
200
What Kino and Juana hear and sing, daily
What is Song of the Family
200
This is what Steinback did instead of graduating from college, Stanford.
What is manual labor
200
What are the thorny, flowering plants around the doctor's place?
What is bougainvillea
300
This is Kino's baby (name)
Who is Coyotito
300
These are the types of homes the wealthier part of town live in
What is stone and plaster
300
This what Kino eats every day and what Juana prepares everyday for breakfast
What are hot corncakes and pulque
300
This is the first novel he had success with
What is Tortilla Flat (1935)
300
What the doctor gives very little of in act of charity
What are alms
400
This is Kino's brother's name
Who is Juan Tomas
400
This is where the doctor visits and has clothes and household decorations from
What is Paris
400
This falls on and stings the baby in his sleeping box
What is scorpion
400
This novel is about the struggle and bond of two migrant workers
What is Of Mice and Men (1937)
400
What is the greediness and desiring more wealth and describes the doctor
What is avarice
500
This man is wealthy, greedy, and fat
Who is the doctor
500
This is where boats and canoes come from and where Kino's grandfather brought Kino's canoe from (Chapter 2)
What is Nayarit, Mexico
500
This is what Kino gives the servant at the doctor's gates in order to show payment for his baby's treatment of his scorpion sting
What are seed pearls, ugly and gray
500
He received this in 1962 for literature
What is The Nobel Prize
500
What is another word to describe one from another group and poor/needy
What is indigent
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