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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?
(a) His father.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His brother.
(d) His mother.

2. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?
(a) Her mother told them.
(b) Her new husband told them.
(c) She told them.
(d) Her father told them.

3. What word is used to describe Salvatore's body after marrying?
(a) Husky.
(b) Frail.
(c) Flabby.
(d) Thin.

4. What would Salvatore do when his rheumatism made it impossible for him to work?
(a) Lay in his bed.
(b) Drink till dawn.
(c) Sob in the dark.
(d) Rest on the beach.

5. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?
(a) Like a child.
(b) Like the devil.
(c) Like an angel.
(d) Like an old man.

6. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?
(a) She has a well-paying job for him.
(b) She has been saying terrible things about him.
(c) She wants to marry him.
(d) She knows how to cure his rheumatism.

7. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?
(a) He walked out on her and never returned.
(b) She ended the engagement when she learned he had cheated.
(c) He left her for another woman.
(d) He was killed during military service.

8. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?
(a) Like flowers.
(b) Like buzzing bees.
(c) Like cold stones.
(d) Like sandpaper.

9. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?
(a) She is ugly as the devil.
(b) She is mean, mean, mean.
(c) She is a beauty like no other.
(d) She is an angel among angels.

10. What type of fish did Salvatore catch during fishing season?
(a) Grouper.
(b) Seabass.
(c) Cod.
(d) Cuttlefish.

11. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?
(a) He feels betrayed.
(b) He understands why she cannot marry him.
(c) He hates her.
(d) He feels honored to have had her love at all.

12. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?
(a) He works as a cook for a wealthy family.
(b) He refused to work and just hangs out on the beach.
(c) He works with his mother cleaning houses.
(d) Fishing and working on his father's vineyard.

13. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?
(a) Courage.
(b) Evil.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Honesty.

14. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?
(a) A gold watch.
(b) A horse and buggy.
(c) A boat and a home.
(d) A new suit.

15. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands when he is not bathing his children?
(a) Like legs of mutton.
(b) Like loaves of bread.
(c) Like bricks.
(d) Like clouds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Assunta seem always to by touched by regarding Salvatore?

2. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?

3. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?

4. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?

5. How is Assunta described physically?

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