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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Illusion and Cagliostro, The Other Face of the Coin, Cola di Rienzo or the Obsession of Antiquity, and Mussolini or the Limitations of Showmanship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was considered an invaluable part of a person's education?
(a) Vacationing in Italy.
(b) Time spent in Italy.
(c) Studying Italy.
(d) Learning Italian.

2. Why do foreigners seem to have trouble with this belief in illusion?
(a) It is disrespectful.
(b) It is a sin.
(c) It is deceitful.
(d) It is hard to discern what is truth.

3. How do female visitors feel about Italian males?
(a) They are annoying.
(b) They are irresistible and charming.
(c) They are too confident.
(d) They are rude and ignorant.

4. There are stories of penniless aristocratic families who live what kind of lives?
(a) Meager.
(b) Extravagant.
(c) Meaningless.
(d) Ruthless.

5. The passion for ______________ allows Italians to glide over life's surface leaving the ugly part as untouched as possible.
(a) Illusion.
(b) Family.
(c) Nature.
(d) Each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Balsamo was what?

2. Who is Giacomo Casanova?

3. Visitors drink vast and indiscriminate quantities of ____________.

4. What still remains in Italy?

5. Italians believe that newborn babies are surrounded by what?

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