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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. Why does Salvatore's fiancé say she can no longer marry him?

2. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?

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

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

5. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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

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

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

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

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 exploring time in "Salvatore." What span of time does the story cover? How is the passage of time expressed?

Essay Topic 3

Examine how fishing plays a part in the plot of "Salvatore."

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