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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Assunta have "nothing but harsh words for" (7)?

2. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?

3. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

2. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

3. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

4. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

5. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

6. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

7. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

8. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

9. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

10. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Read a review of "Salvatore." Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about how Salvatore's time in China changes the course of his life.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how Salvatore responds to leaving for military service. What was it like for him and why?

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