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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Realism and Guicciardini, The Pursuit of Life, The Power of the Family and How to Succeed.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What drives the tourists to Italy?
(a) Inexpensive retirement.
(b) Peace and quiet.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Some unknown urge.

3. Guicciardini served as _____________ and arrested and tortured those who disagreed with Papal decrees.
(a) Mayor.
(b) Governor.
(c) President.
(d) A priest.

4. What did Giuseppe Balsamo call himself?
(a) Giacomo Casanova.
(b) Baldassar Castiglione.
(c) Guiseppe Verdi.
(d) Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.

5. The best example of this philosophy is embodied by whom?
(a) Francesco Guicciardini.
(b) Baldassar Castiglione.
(c) John Castigliola.
(d) Giuseppe Balsamo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was part of one's Italian education?

2. Who is Guiseppe Balsamo?

3. What was one of the major reasons for Italian travel?

4. Polite lies and flattery are tools of the Italian people in order to do what?

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

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