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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Realism and Guicciardini, The Pursuit of Life, The Power of the Family and How to Succeed.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Balsamo became involved in what?
(a) Italian politics.
(b) Many famous works of art.
(c) The smithing guild.
(d) One of the most notorious criminal situations of the time.

4. Author Henry James claimed that the pleasure of Italy was inseparably tied to what?
(a) Its landscape.
(b) Its architecture.
(c) Its food.
(d) The human element.

5. What does the author admit about most Italian girls and young women?
(a) They are disturbingly beautiful.
(b) They are uncontrollable.
(c) They are loud and rude.
(d) They are scary.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the most prominent proponents of illusion was the author __________________.

2. What is one book that reigns supreme in cases of conduct?

3. The best example of this philosophy is embodied by whom?

4. Giuseppe Balsamo is a contemporary of whom?

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

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