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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. It is necessary for each Italian to do what?
(a) Pray to these spirits.
(b) Give gifts to these spirits.
(c) Ward off the presence and the effects of these spirits the best he can.
(d) Ask for help from these spirits.

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

3. The actions of Northerners move them_________ their goals through better jobs.
(a) The same distance as Southerners from.
(b) Farther from.
(c) Away from.
(d) Closer to.

4. What did Giuseppe Balsamo call himself?
(a) Guiseppe Verdi.
(b) Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
(c) Baldassar Castiglione.
(d) Giacomo Casanova.

5. People in Southern Italy live more intense lives relying on their instincts but run what risk?
(a) Poverty and insecurity.
(b) Not being taken seriously.
(c) Spiritual impoverishment and hedonism.
(d) Losing what wealth they have.

Short Answer Questions

1. Everything is better when it does what?

2. The people are even more aware of this when they know they are being observed?

3. The passion for ______________ allows Italians to glide over life's surface leaving the ugly part as untouched as possible.

4. This author asserts that a man must use tactics of mild deception at times in order to do what?

5. Italy is the seat of what?

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