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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 did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?
(a) They were lazy devils.
(b) They were hard workers.
(c) They were unfortunate peasants.
(d) They were the salt of the earth.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whom did Assunta have "nothing but harsh words for" (7)?

4. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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

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

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

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

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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