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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. What must be hidden?
(a) Signs of wealth.
(b) All that is ugly and unpleasant.
(c) Nature's beauty.
(d) Foreigners.

2. Throughout their long history the Italian people have learned that their best defense against corruption, violence, civil wars and revolutions is to do what?
(a) Keep their mouths shut.
(b) Speak out.
(c) Protest.
(d) Hide.

3. In Sicily, each man's rank is determined by what?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His wealth.
(c) The amount of fear he can generate.
(d) His looks.

4. Everything is better when it does what?
(a) Is given the chance to grow.
(b) Is able to be studied by others.
(c) Sparkles and has some form of order.
(d) Is allowed to be itself.

5. What has drawn these people to Italy?
(a) The freedom.
(b) The inviting climate and riches.
(c) The available housing.
(d) The inviting locals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why could this man not achieve practical results?

2. Italians believe that the effects of life _______________ be eliminated.

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

4. Who is Giacomo Casanova?

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

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