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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Peaceful Invasion, The Eternal Pilgrimage, The Fatal Charm of Italy and The Importance of Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Henry James claimed that the pleasure of Italy was inseparably tied to what?
(a) Its landscape.
(b) Its architecture.
(c) The human element.
(d) Its food.

2. Visitors drink vast and indiscriminate quantities of ____________.
(a) Wine.
(b) Beer.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Coke.

3. In later years, people came to the cities of Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples to do what?
(a) Eat.
(b) Study.
(c) Relax.
(d) Celebrate.

4. What accounts for much of the male attention towards women in Italy?
(a) The women are intelligent.
(b) The women are very demanding.
(c) The women are very beautiful.
(d) The women are threatening.

5. Possibly nowhere else on earth can these things be found and indulged in with such ____________.
(a) Fear.
(b) Abandon.
(c) Focus.
(d) Anxiety.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes these visitors to make the decision from number 21?

2. Italy is the seat of what?

3. What decision do some visitors make according to this chapter?

4. What still remains in Italy?

5. Is this influx of people in Italy new?

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