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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. What does Assunta seem always to by touched by regarding Salvatore?
(a) His gentle sweetness.
(b) His perseverance in the face of adversity.
(c) He physical prowess.
(d) He altruism.

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

5. Whom did Assunta have "nothing but harsh words for" (7)?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her former fiancé.
(c) Salvatore's former fiancé.
(d) Salvatore's mother.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?

2. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?

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

4. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?

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

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