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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Peaceful Invasion, The Eternal Pilgrimage, The Fatal Charm of Italy and The Importance of Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one of the major reasons for Italian travel?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Work.
(c) Vacation.
(d) Religious pilgrimages to Rome.

2. What accounts for much of the male attention towards women in Italy?
(a) The women are threatening.
(b) The women are very beautiful.
(c) The women are intelligent.
(d) The women are very demanding.

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

4. Possibly nowhere else on earth can these things be found and indulged in with such ____________.
(a) Fear.
(b) Abandon.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Focus.

5. Almost without fail, all who visit and return are drawn to what?
(a) Italian men.
(b) Italian food.
(c) The Italian zest for life.
(d) Italian women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Italy was on the route of the crusaders on their way to where?

2. What does the author admit about most Italian girls and young women?

3. What causes these visitors to make the decision from number 21?

4. Who flocks to Italy each year in increasing numbers?

5. Upon arrival, what were nearly impossible to find?

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