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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. Visitors to Italy often return when?
(a) Decades later.
(b) Never.
(c) The next year.
(d) The next week.

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

3. Giuseppe Balsamo is a contemporary of whom?
(a) Cagliostro.
(b) Castiglione.
(c) Casanova.
(d) Castagliola.

4. What entire city enacted deception?
(a) Florence.
(b) Venice.
(c) Milan.
(d) Rome.

5. Whose knowledge of Italy's geography and culture is deep?
(a) The politicians.
(b) The visitors.
(c) The teachers.
(d) The locals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Although almost everyone recognizes these minor deceptions for what they are, they are considered what?

3. The first purpose of show is what?

4. Why do Italians cling to illusions such as those exhibited by Casanova and Cagliostro?

5. What did this city add to the building facades?

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