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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. What did this city add to the building facades?
(a) Flags.
(b) Marble.
(c) Cardboard.
(d) Paint.

2. What drives the tourists to Italy?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Inexpensive retirement.
(c) Some unknown urge.
(d) Peace and quiet.

3. Polite lies and flattery are tools of the Italian people in order to do what?
(a) Stay popular.
(b) Perpetuate the necessary illusions.
(c) Be happy.
(d) Earn wealth.

4. What kind of behavior do tourists demonstrate?
(a) Cheerful.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Bored.
(d) Slightly frenzied.

5. The best example of this philosophy is embodied by whom?
(a) John Castigliola.
(b) Giuseppe Balsamo.
(c) Baldassar Castiglione.
(d) Francesco Guicciardini.

Short Answer Questions

1. For ages it has been the fate of the Italian people to grasp wealth and power so they achieve it through what?

2. About what is this book?

3. The second evil spirit is what?

4. How do female visitors feel about Italian males?

5. Everything is better when it does what?

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