1. What does Kino hear in his head? What would he call it if he spoke of it?

2. What does Kino have for breakfast each day?

3. What makes Kino helpless in this situation?

4. What qualities in Juana does Kino wonder at?

5. What is Juana feeling?

6. What relationship exists between the people of Kino's race and the people of the doctor's race?

7. What does the doctor want to know about the Indian?

8. What do "the people of the Gulf" trust more than their eyes?

9. What has this oyster bed done?

10. What "secret little inner song" is in Kino as he works?

11. Why is Juana afraid of wanting anything too much?

12. To what is the great pearl compared?

13. To what does the narrator compare a town? What do the two things have in common?

14. About what do the priest, the doctor, and the beggars dream when they hear of Kino's pearl?

15. How has Kino become "every man's enemy"?

16. Of what does Kino dream? What does he want to purchase with his newfound wealth?

17. How might learning to read, write, and calculate make the people free?

18. What two possible futures for Kino are suggested?

19. Why does Kino glance about suspiciously?

20. What forces might be set up to destroy Kino's future?

21. What causes Kino to be trapped? What would change this situation for him?

22. What does Kino do with the pearl?

23. What are the two greatest enemies of the poor?

24. Of what is Kino suspicious?

25. Whom does Kino fear? What change does this fear bring about in him?

26. How does Kino awaken?

27. How does Kino respond to Juana's comments?

28. What effect does the pearl have on Kino and Juana at the end of this chapter?

29. What will keep Kino from being able to bargain for a fair price for his pearl?

30. What worry do the neighbors have with regard to Kino?

31. What are the meanings of the various angles at which a man in this culture might wear his hat?

32. What concerns Juan Tomas and Kino?

33. What happened with each of the pearl agents the "old ones" used?

34. What difference is there between the buyer's smile and his eyes?

35. What argument does the dealer give to support his claim that the pearl is not of great value?

36. Why does the dealer feel fear?

37. From what does Kino get renewed strength?

38. What do the people of the village not know?

39. What has Kino done?

40. Why is Juan Tomás afraid?

41. What has happened to Kino?

42. What does Juana want Kino to do? Why does he refuse to do what she asks?

43. What is Juana trying to do? Why?

44. With what or whom is Kino disgusted?

45. What differences does Juana believe exist between men and women?

46. Whom did the canoe belong to? What does Kino think about what has been done to the boat?

47. How does the fire start?

48. What does Juan Tomás believe Kino should have done?

49. What does Kino plan to do?

50. With what does Kino identify the pearl?

51. Why do Kino and Juana walk in the wagon rut?

52. What does Kino now know?

53. How does Kino revise his first statement?

54. What is Kino's plan?

55. Why doesn't Kino bother to cover his tracks?

56. What primitive instinct does Kino follow?

57. Why does Juana cover her ankles quickly?

58. What new plan does Kino have?

59. How does the flight of Kino and Juana differ now?

60. Why must Kino and Juana head for the cleft in the range, with its hint of foliage?

61. What worries Kino? What is his plan?

62. Why does Kino claw and tear at the ferns and wild grapes?

63. What is Kino's plan?

64. Why does Kino hang the knife against his back?

65. What motivates Kino at this point?

66. Why did it take Kino a long time to reach bottom?

67. Who has died?

68. What do people say about Kino and Juana?

69. How has the pearl's appearance changed in Kino's eyes?

70. What does Juana want Kino to do?