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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?
(a) He refused to work and just hangs out on the beach.
(b) He works with his mother cleaning houses.
(c) Fishing and working on his father's vineyard.
(d) He works as a cook for a wealthy family.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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 father.
(b) His brother.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His mother.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Salvatore go to have a good look at Assunta before deciding whether he would marry her or not?

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

3. What word is used to describe Salvatore's body after marrying?

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

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

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