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

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

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 knows how to cure his rheumatism.
(c) She has a well-paying job for him.
(d) She wants to marry him.

4. Whom did Assunta have "nothing but harsh words for" (7)?
(a) Salvatore's former fiancé.
(b) Salvatore's mother.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her former fiancé.

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) Courage.
(d) Goodness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Salvatore's fiancé say she can no longer marry him?

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

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

4. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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