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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. How do visitors attempt to speak?
(a) With their hands.
(b) Quietly.
(c) Loudly and slowly.
(d) In Italian.

2. The largest number of visitors come from where?
(a) Greece and Turkey.
(b) Northern Europe and the United States.
(c) South Korea and India.
(d) Russia and China.

3. When do tourists demonstrate the kind of behavior mentioned in number 7?
(a) Upon crossing over the border into Italy.
(b) When deciding to travel to Italy.
(c) Upon arriving in Rome.
(d) When leaving Italy.

4. Cardinal de Rohan of France believed that Cagliostro could do what?
(a) Win the heart of Marie Antoinette.
(b) Make gold and construct a huge diamond from several tiny stones.
(c) Turn water into wine.
(d) Make large structures out of gold and diamonds.

5. What are these spirits destined to do?
(a) Serve every Italian.
(b) Bring good luck to every Italian.
(c) Make the life of every Italian miserable.
(d) Protect the life of every Italian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cagliostro is imprisoned where for a brief time?

2. What is the biggest case of illusion?

3. Balsamo became involved in what?

4. Amidst all this spectacle and beauty, however, live the Italians, viewed by many as what?

5. To what other kind of music do visitors listen?

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