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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 was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?
2. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?
3. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?
4. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?
5. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?
Short Essay Questions
1. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?
2. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?
3. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?
4. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?
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. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?
8. 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?
9. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?
10. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define setting and discuss the significance of Maugham’s choice of setting in "Salvatore."
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of "Salvatore." What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the story to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 3
What conflicts exist in "Salvatore"? How does conflict develop the themes of goodness, longing, and love?
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