The Pearl by John Steinbeck – Chapter 6 Listening Task

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1. Why do they avoid the town centre?

2. Why are they pleased for the wind?

3. What did the song of the Pearl sound like?

4. What types of things does Kino tell Juana?

5. What does Kino look for in the Pearl’s reflection?

6. What does he see instead?

7. What song is now mixed up with the Song of the Pearl?

8. Who were the people following them?

9. What were they hunting?

10. What was Kino getting ready for?

11. What effect do Juana’s two questions have on Kino?

12. What changes about the way they travel at this point?

13. What do Juana and Kino agree on at this point?

14. What is explained in great detail here, what comes to the pools?

15. Where do Juana and Kino hide?

16. Where do the trackers settle?

17. What are two of the men doing?

18. What is Kino’s plan?

19. What does he tell Juana to do if he dies?

20. What song drives him down the mountain?

21. What changes to make Kino’s movement down the mountain more dangerous?

22. What stirs the trackers?

23. What two sounds are heard here?

24. What does Kino do next?

25. What cry does Kino hear?

26. How did Kino and Juana return home?

27. Juana and Kino seemed to carry two tall towers of what?

28. What did Kino carry with him?

29. What do the city folk do as Kino and Juana approached?

30. What does Kino do finally with the Pearl?

31. What happens to the Song of the Pearl?