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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. How is Assunta described physically?
(a) Unattractive and old-looking.
(b) Heavy-set but jolly.
(c) Unkempt and scraggly.
(d) Beautiful and delicate featured.

2. With whom did Salvatore fish with on his boat in the evenings during fishing season?
(a) His sons.
(b) One of his brothers.
(c) Assunta.
(d) His parents.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is used to describe Salvatore's body after marrying?

2. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?

3. Where did Salvatore go to have a good look at Assunta before deciding whether he would marry her or not?

4. What would Salvatore do when his rheumatism made it impossible for him to work?

5. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

2. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

3. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

4. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

5. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

6. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

7. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

8. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

9. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

10. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

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