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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. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about Assunta. Who is she? What does she symbolize? Describe her relationship with Salvatore.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of longing and discuss how this theme is revealed in "Salvatore."

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