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

2. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?
(a) Barbaric.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Peasant-like.
(d) Aristocratic.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Assunta described physically?

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

3. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?

4. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?

5. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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