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

2. With whom did Salvatore fish with on his boat in the evenings during fishing season?

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 do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?

5. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the author of "Salvatore." Who is he? What else has he written? How is "Salvatore" similar or different from his previous works?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing language in "Salvatore." How would you describe the author's style? How does this style impact the reader's experience?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Maugham’s focus on the theme of goodness as presented in the story.

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