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

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

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

4. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

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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