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| Ramon's Baseball Answers | |
| 1. | What did Ramon steal from El' Diablo? (The Black Pearl) |
| 2. | Why
wouldn't Ramon throw the pearl back into the sea after the Manta Diablo
destroyed the boat? (Ramon thought that the Sevillano did kill the Manta Diablo.) |
| 3. | How did Ramon's father know that he had found the pearl? (There was a crowd of people at the shop when he returned from a pearl diving trip. Ramon told him right away.) |
| 4. | What
did Ramon's father think about the pearl the first time he saw it? (Ramon's father thought that it was fake and that Ramon had glued blister pearls together in a clever way.) |
| 5. | How
valuable was the pearl to the townspeople? (It was very valuable. The people all made their living from the sea and they felt that they were owners of anything that came from the sea.) |
| 6. | How much did the pearl weigh? (62.5 carats) |
| 7. | What
did Ramon's father do to remove flaws from the pearl? (it would be worth
more money.) |
| 8. | What
plan did the other pearl businessmen of La Paz have to pay for the pearl? (They were going to put their money together to buy the pearl because they did not have enough to buy it by themselves.) |
| 9. | Why
didn't Ramon and Soto Luzon paddle all of the way back to La Paz? (The Manta Diablo was following them and destroyed their boat before they could get to the shore.) |
| 10. | Why did Soto Luzon mumble to himself as they paddled out of the lagoon on the way back to La Paz with the pearl? |
| 11. | What
happened to make Ramon & Soto Luzon fall out of the boat and into the
sea? (The Manta Diablo jumped into the air and crashed onto the boat and sank it.) |
| 12. |
Why didn't Soto Luzon
go all the way back to La Paz with Ramon? |
| 13. | Soto
Luzon gave Ramon a warning. What was it? (Get rid of the pearl or the Manta Diablo would kill him.) |
| 14. | Why
did Ramon have to go back to the office after he had weighed the pearl.
(The streets were too crowded and he did not want anyone to follow him and ask abou the pearl.) |
| 15. | Why
couldn't Ramon tell his father about the pearl right away? (There were too many people watching and a little boy was looking in the window and telling everyone else what he was telling his father.) |
| 16. | What
did Ramon say to try and convince his father not to cut the pearl? (He said that he might ruin it..the flaw is not bad.) |
| 17. | How
did Ramon's father respond to his asking him not to cut the pearl? (He said that it was useless with the flaw there. It would be worth more with the flaw gone.) |
| 18. | How was the sound outside different from the sound inside the workshop when the pearl was being cut? (Inside the shop it was dead silent, but outside everyone was laughing and having a loud party.) |
| 19. | Ramon's
father gave the pearl a new name after he cut it. What was the new name
of the pearl? (The Pearl of the Universe...The Pearl of Heaven) |
| 20. | Where
did Ramon's father plan to sell the pearl at first? (In Mexico City) |
| 21. | Ramon's father told the other pearl merchants that they did not have enough money to buy the pearl. How did they react? (They became angry and insulted Ramon's father.) |
| 22. | Why
did Ramon's mother want his father to sell the pearl to the other dealers? (She wanted to buy a fancy carriage and white horses.) |
| 23. | When the dealers got really angry because Ramon's father would not lower the price of the pearl, what did they do? (They reminded him that the last time he tried to sell a pearl in Mexico City rather than sell it to them, he lost money on the deal.) |
| 24. | What
did Ramon's father do with the pearl after the dealers made him mad? (He gave it to the church.) |
| 25. | What
did Father Gallardo decide to do with the pearl? (He put it into the hands of the Madonna, lady-of-the-sea.) |