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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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 marry her if she fixed herself up a bit.
(c) He would marry her.
(d) He would rather die than marry her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?

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

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

4. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands when he is not bathing his children?

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

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