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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. What complicates matters even further between Northerners and Southerners?
(a) They look very different from each other.
(b) There is no definite line separating the two areas.
(c) They speak different dialects.
(d) There is a definite line separating the two areas.

2. How did Guicciardini command respect?
(a) With his kindness.
(b) With impressive shows of power and pomp.
(c) With impressive speeches.
(d) With his wealth.

3. What entire city enacted deception?
(a) Rome.
(b) Milan.
(c) Venice.
(d) Florence.

4. Why do these aristocrats live lives such as this?
(a) Only family matters.
(b) They only care about themselves.
(c) In order to host a huge banquet and ball once each year.
(d) It is the only way of life they know.

5. What must be hidden?
(a) Nature's beauty.
(b) All that is ugly and unpleasant.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) Signs of wealth.

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. What helps Italians navigate through life with as little pain as possible?

3. In exchange for protection by the Mafia, what happens to people?

4. Although almost everyone recognizes these minor deceptions for what they are, they are considered what?

5. What is the Baroque period?

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