The Black Pearl
All answers should be complete sentences; most answers should be a complete paragraph or
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What is the main conflict of this story?
Write a paragraph about the dénouement.
Who is the protagonist of this story. Who is the antagonist?
Use the conversion on page 10 to compute the numbers of grains in 1 carrot.
Who is the narrator? What kind of narrator is he?
What was Seviellano’s real name?
Write a paragraph that describes Seviellano.
The synopsis on the back cover of the book states that the pearl brings danger, jealousy,
and even death. What danger, whose jealousy, and whose death does it bring?
9. Why did Ramon’s father give the pearl to the church?
10. Contrast the reason that Ramon’s father gave the pearl to the church and the reason
Ramon gave it to the church. Be sure to explain the word “now” in Ramon’s statement
“This now is a gift of adoration.”
11. Why did Ramon choose to return the pearl to the church instead of throwing it to Manta
Diablo?
12. The logical fallacy post hoc ergo propter hoc is the fallacy of concluding that one event
causes another because the event came before the other. Many superstitions arise from
this fallacy. Give an example of this fallacy in Ramon’s logic.