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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of fish did Salvatore catch during fishing season?

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

3. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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

7. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring time in "Salvatore." What span of time does the story cover? How is the passage of time expressed?

Essay Topic 2

Examine how fishing plays a part in the plot of "Salvatore."

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how Salvatore's time in China changes the course of his life.

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