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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. This author is a proponent of what?
(a) The current politician in power.
(b) Building wealth.
(c) Honor and duty.
(d) Trusting fate.

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

3. Italians, like many other people, must one day realize what about life?
(a) It is filled with joy and love.
(b) It in the control of each individual.
(c) It is pitiless and ugly with a constant struggle between hypocrisy and sincerity.
(d) It is too short.

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

5. Why do these aristocrats live lives such as this?
(a) They only care about themselves.
(b) In order to host a huge banquet and ball once each year.
(c) Only family matters.
(d) It is the only way of life they know.

Short Answer Questions

1. The passion for ______________ allows Italians to glide over life's surface leaving the ugly part as untouched as possible.

2. Some of the visitors are more ______________ than the residents.

3. The people are even more aware of this when they know they are being observed?

4. What has drawn these people to Italy?

5. Italian mothers take on an almost divine role in the family paralleling what?

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