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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. The North supplies what to the South?
(a) Not much.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Some consumer goods.
(d) Equipment and most consumer goods.

2. 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 crazy.
(b) They must not be Italian.
(c) They are more Italian.
(d) They can sometimes be perceived as being less Italian.

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

4. Who is another famous Florentine known for ruthless behavior and politics?
(a) Baldassra Castiglione.
(b) Giacomo Casanova.
(c) Cola di Rienzo.
(d) Niccolo Machiavelli.

5. Why will the situation not improve in the immediate future between the North and South?
(a) Much of the capital raised in the South goes to the Northern workers.
(b) Much of the capital raised in the North goes to the Southern workers.
(c) The South does not want it to improve.
(d) The North does not want it to improve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes up the puzzling Problema del Mezzogiorno?

2. Why do these aristocrats live lives such as this?

3. From where is this man?

4. Italians believe that the effects of life _______________ be eliminated.

5. Whose knowledge of Italy's geography and culture is deep?

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