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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Problema Del Mezzogiorno, Sicily and the Mafia, Fornovo and After, The Perennial Baroque and Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Italians cling to illusions such as those exhibited by Casanova and Cagliostro?
(a) The visitors are drawn to this illusion.
(b) Real life is too brutal and ugly to be endured without pretense.
(c) Real life is too dule to be endured without pretense.
(d) It keeps life exciting.

2. There are visible signs of material advantages in the North, but there is always the danger of what?
(a) Spiritual impoverishment and hedonism.
(b) Economic collapse.
(c) Poverty and insecurity.
(d) Losing that advantage.

3. What do other Italians think of the better-educated Italians who have no need for these tools for living life as pain-free as possible?
(a) They must not be Italian.
(b) They are more Italian.
(c) They can sometimes be perceived as being less Italian.
(d) They are crazy.

4. How did Guicciardini command respect?
(a) With impressive speeches.
(b) With impressive shows of power and pomp.
(c) With his kindness.
(d) With his wealth.

5. Italy was on the route of the crusaders on their way to where?
(a) The Holy Land.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) Turkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is payment in the form of money?

2. Author Henry James claimed that the pleasure of Italy was inseparably tied to what?

3. To what kind of music do visitors listen?

4. What was considered an invaluable part of a person's education?

5. Almost everyone in Sicily understands what?

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