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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What accounts for much of the male attention towards women in Italy?
(a) The women are very demanding.
(b) The women are very beautiful.
(c) The women are intelligent.
(d) The women are threatening.

2. When do tourists demonstrate the kind of behavior mentioned in number 7?
(a) Upon crossing over the border into Italy.
(b) When leaving Italy.
(c) Upon arriving in Rome.
(d) When deciding to travel to Italy.

3. An Italian mother will care competently for her baby, but when she knows she has an audience, what will she do?
(a) Hand her baby off to strangers.
(b) Ignore the baby.
(c) Hide her baby.
(d) Exaggeratedly fondle and coo over the child.

4. How do visitors attempt to speak?
(a) With their hands.
(b) Quietly.
(c) In Italian.
(d) Loudly and slowly.

5. Would most of these visitors consider doing any of these previously-mentioned activities in their own hometowns?
(a) Probably.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Often.

6. To what kind of music do visitors listen?
(a) Country.
(b) Rock.
(c) Opera.
(d) Rap.

7. What decision do some visitors make according to this chapter?
(a) To never return to Italy.
(b) To visit during the winter.
(c) To encourage others to stay away from Italy.
(d) To stay permanently.

8. Cagliostro is imprisoned where for a brief time?
(a) Holland.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

9. Who found their way to Italy?
(a) Franks and Saxons.
(b) Barbarians and religious pilgrims.
(c) Gauls and Britons.
(d) Russians and Mongolians.

10. What is the biggest case of illusion?
(a) Italy as a whole.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Rome.
(d) Saint Peter's Church in Rome.

11. What do female visitors believe about Italian men?
(a) They do not like foreign women.
(b) They do not like Italian women.
(c) They do not pay attention to their particular marital status or circumstances.
(d) They are selfish and rude.

12. Visitors to Italy often return when?
(a) Decades later.
(b) The next week.
(c) The next year.
(d) Never.

13. Who flocks to Italy each year in increasing numbers?
(a) Italians.
(b) The elderly.
(c) Foreign visitors.
(d) Children.

14. Italians believe that the effects of life _______________ be eliminated.
(a) Can.
(b) Cannot.
(c) Could.
(d) Should.

15. Why was arrival by sea dangerous?
(a) Because of the risk of theft from a ship's captain.
(b) Because of storms, ship's crew mutinies and pirates.
(c) Because of poorly-made vessels.
(d) Because of rocky shores and limited docking space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did many view Italians as deserving?

2. Polite lies and flattery are tools of the Italian people in order to do what?

3. What did Giuseppe Balsamo call himself?

4. Some of the visitors are more ______________ than the residents.

5. The third evil spirit is what?

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