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. Where do consolation, help, advice, provisions, loans, weapons, allies and accomplices lie?
(a) Friends.
(b) In the family.
(c) The government.
(d) Wealth.

2. On what was Guicciardini more focused?
(a) Providing advice to others.
(b) Goals of prospering and wielding power.
(c) Protecting his family.
(d) Improving life for his community.

3. 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.

4. What do other Italians think of the better-educated Italians who have no need for these tools for living life as pain-free as possible?
(a) They are more Italian.
(b) They must not be Italian.
(c) They can sometimes be perceived as being less Italian.
(d) They are crazy.

5. Within the family, the males reign supreme and Italian men are noted for what?
(a) Their care of women.
(b) Their strength and intelligence.
(c) Their manliness and affected posturing.
(d) Their need for love.