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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Assunta described physically?
(a) Beautiful and delicate featured.
(b) Unattractive and old-looking.
(c) Heavy-set but jolly.
(d) Unkempt and scraggly.

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

3. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Courage.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Goodness.

4. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?
(a) Like sandpaper.
(b) Like buzzing bees.
(c) Like cold stones.
(d) Like flowers.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. What word is used to describe Salvatore's body after marrying?
(a) Husky.
(b) Frail.
(c) Flabby.
(d) Thin.

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

10. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?
(a) She ended the engagement when she learned he had cheated.
(b) He left her for another woman.
(c) He walked out on her and never returned.
(d) He was killed during military service.

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

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

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

14. Why does Salvatore's fiancé say she can no longer marry him?
(a) She has fallen in love with someone else.
(b) He will never be able to work.
(c) She has married somebody else.
(d) She is moving far away.

15. What type of fish did Salvatore catch during fishing season?
(a) Cod.
(b) Seabass.
(c) Cuttlefish.
(d) Grouper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?

2. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?

3. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?

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

5. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?

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