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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. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?

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. With whom did Salvatore fish with on his boat in the evenings during fishing season?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Read a review of "Salvatore." Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.

Essay Topic 2

What conflicts exist in "Salvatore"? How does conflict develop the themes of goodness, longing, and love?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay examining the island of Ischia as a symbol in "Salvatore."

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