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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?
(a) Like an angel.
(b) Like an old man.
(c) Like a child.
(d) Like the devil.

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

3. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?
(a) She is mean, mean, mean.
(b) She is an angel among angels.
(c) She is ugly as the devil.
(d) She is a beauty like no other.

4. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands when he is not bathing his children?
(a) Like loaves of bread.
(b) Like clouds.
(c) Like legs of mutton.
(d) Like bricks.

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

6. What did Salvatore do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?
(a) Rode a horse and buggy.
(b) Worked on his father's vineyard.
(c) Taught school.
(d) Cooked for a wealthy family.

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

8. Where did Salvatore go to have a good look at Assunta before deciding whether he would marry her or not?
(a) The cafe.
(b) Church.
(c) The beach.
(d) Her house.

9. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?
(a) Barbaric.
(b) Peasant-like.
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) Beautiful.

10. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?
(a) Eight.
(b) None.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

11. 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.

12. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

13. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?
(a) He would rather marry his own brother.
(b) He would rather die than marry her.
(c) He would marry her if she fixed herself up a bit.
(d) He would marry her.

14. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?
(a) Tiny.
(b) Gigantic.
(c) Miniscule.
(d) Microscopic.

15. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?
(a) He feels betrayed.
(b) He understands why she cannot marry him.
(c) He hates her.
(d) He feels honored to have had her love at all.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?

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

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

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

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