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Ramon's Baseball Questions
 
1. What did Ramon steal from El' Diablo?
2. Why wouldn't Ramon throw the pearl back into the sea after the Manta Diablo destroyed the boat?
3. How did Ramon's father know that he had found the pearl?
4. What did Ramon's father think about the pearl the first time he saw it?
5. How valuable was the pearl to the townspeople?
6. How much did the pearl weigh?
7. What did Ramon's father do to remove flaws from the pearl?
8. What plan did the other pearl businessmen of La Paz have to pay for the pearl?
9. Why didn't Ramon and Soto Luzon paddle all of the way back to La Paz?
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?
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Why didn't Soto Luzon go all the way back to La Paz with Ramon?
13. Soto Luzon gave Ramon a warning if he did not give the pearl back to the Manta Diablo. What was it?
14. Why did Ramon have to go back to the office after he had weighed the pearl.
15. Why couldn't Ramon tell his father about the pearl right away?
16. What did Ramon say to try and convince his father not to cut the pearl?
17. How did Ramon's father respond to his asking him not to cut the pearl?
18. How was the sound outside different from the sound inside the workshop when the pearl was being cut?
19. Ramon's father gave the pearl a new name after he cut it. What was the new name of the pearl?
20. Where did Ramon's father plan to sell the pearl at first?
21. Ramon's father told the other pearl merchants that they did not have enough money to buy the pearl. How did they react?
22. Why did Ramon's mother want his father to sell the pearl to the other dealers?
23. When the dealers got really angry because Ramon's father would not lower the price of the pearl, what did they do?
24. What did Ramon's father do with the pearl after the dealers made him mad?
25. What did Father Gallardo decide to do with the pearl?