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The Pearl
Chapters 1-2
Excerpt I: Kino heard the little splash of the morning waves on the beach. It was very good - Kino closed his
eyes again to listen to his music. Perhaps he alone did this and perhaps all of his people did it. His people had
once been great makers of songs so that everything they saw or thought or did or heard became a song. That
was very long ago. The songs remained; Kino knew them, but no new songs were added. That does not mean
that there were no personal songs. In Kino's head there was a song now, clear and soft, and if he had been
able to speak of it, he would have called it the Song of the Family.
1. Kino can best be characterized as
A. greedy
B. satisfied
C. nervous
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D. angry