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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 else do Italians think about capitalism?
(a) They appreciate the outward aspects of it but do not believe it truly exists.
(b) They think it is only for the wealthy.
(c) They think it requires too much responsibility from the citizens.
(d) They cannot appreciate anything about it.

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

3. Cagliostro is imprisoned where for a brief time?
(a) Holland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

4. What did many view Italians as deserving?
(a) To be the seat of the Roman Catholic Church.
(b) Everything that was beautiful and majestic.
(c) Better than they had.
(d) The corruption and tyrannies which infiltrate their national history.

5. The fundamental reason that the South will not narrow the gap between itself and the North is what?
(a) Southerners think in political, not economic, terms.
(b) Southerners do not want the gap narrowed.
(c) Southerners are not intelligent.
(d) Southerners think in economic, not political terms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The confusion about the Mafia is almost always perpetuated by whom?

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

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

5. The Northerners believe that what is the way to achieve their goals?

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