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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 is one use of the term mafioso?
(a) Strong.
(b) Ruthless.
(c) Members of the Mafia.
(d) Evil.

2. What are children taught early?
(a) The dichotomy of the family.
(b) The love of all things Italian.
(c) To follow the Catholic faith.
(d) The importance of community service.

3. What complicates matters even further between Northerners and Southerners?
(a) They look very different from each other.
(b) There is no definite line separating the two areas.
(c) They speak different dialects.
(d) There is a definite line separating the two areas.

4. Southerners would like to live better lives and would prefer that the gap between North and South would do what?
(a) Be more distinct.
(b) Be moved farther north.
(c) Diminish.
(d) Be moved farther south.

5. The actions of Northerners move them_________ their goals through better jobs.
(a) Closer to.
(b) The same distance as Southerners from.
(c) Farther from.
(d) Away from.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other defense mechanism do the Italians use?

2. Regarding the answer to number 99, what is this man's career?

3. It is believed that there is both Casanova and Cagliostro in who?

4. Giuseppe Balsamo is a contemporary of whom?

5. Who was this city trying to deceive?

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