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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Salvatore assume his fiancé was not waiting for him when he returned from military service?
(a) He thinks she was too shy to see him after all that time.
(b) He assumes she married someone else.
(c) He figures she does not want to marry someone as ill as he is.
(d) He figures she did not receive his letter announcing his return.

2. What had Salvatore's fiancé and her mother heard about him while he was away?
(a) He was very ill and would never quite recover.
(b) He as so homesick he came home.
(c) He was the strongest man on his ship.
(d) He had served honorably.

3. Why would Salvatore look at Ischia every evening?
(a) To see what the next day's weather would be like.
(b) To contemplate his love for his fiancé.
(c) To pray for his family.
(d) To meditate and sit in peace.

4. Where is the final place Salvatore is sent for military service?
(a) Russia.
(b) China.
(c) America.
(d) France.

5. What does the narrator say Salvatore spent his mornings at the start of the story?
(a) In his room.
(b) On the beach.
(c) At school.
(d) Working on a boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the hardest for Salvatore about being away from home?

2. What does the narrator say Salvatore was "full of" in the first paragraph of "Salvatore"?

3. What simile is used to described how the place Salvatore grew up looked in the evening?

4. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's eyes at the start of the story?

5. Who is Salvatore said to have "acted as nursemaid to" (2)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Salvatore have "hard feet" (1)?

2. How did Salvatore care for his younger brothers at the start of the story?

3. How is 15-year-old Salvatore described at the beginning of "Salvatore"?

4. Who meets Salvatore at the shore when he arrives in Naples after leaving the military? Who is missing?

5. What does Salvatore realize were "as much a part of him as his hands and feet"(2) during his military service?

6. Why is Salvatore discharged from the military? What does he feel when he learns he can go home?

7. Aside from missing his family and fiancé, why was military service so hard for Salvatore?

8. How is Salvatore's fiancé described at the start of the story?

9. Why did Salvatore and his fiancé have to wait to marry?

10. Who is Salvatore's father and what did he own?

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