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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) She ended the engagement when she learned he had cheated.
(d) He left her for another woman.

4. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?
(a) She has been saying terrible things about him.
(b) She wants to marry him.
(c) She has a well-paying job for him.
(d) She knows how to cure his rheumatism.

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

6. 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 brother.
(d) His father.

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

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

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

10. 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 bricks.
(d) Like legs of mutton.

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

12. 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.

13. 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 mother told them.
(d) Her father told them.

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

15. 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 the salt of the earth.
(d) They were unfortunate peasants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?

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

3. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?

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

5. What did Salvatore do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?

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