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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Is this influx of people in Italy new?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Somewhat.
2. In later years, people came to the cities of Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples to do what?
(a) Relax.
(b) Eat.
(c) Study.
(d) Celebrate.
3. The first of the evil spirits is what?
(a) Shame.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Lust.
(d) Pain.
4. Italy is the seat of what?
(a) Art history.
(b) Europe.
(c) The Roman Catholic Church.
(d) The Mediterranean.
5. Why do foreigners seem to have trouble with this belief in illusion?
(a) It is disrespectful.
(b) It is a sin.
(c) It is deceitful.
(d) It is hard to discern what is truth.
6. Almost without fail, all who visit and return are drawn to what?
(a) The Italian zest for life.
(b) Italian men.
(c) Italian food.
(d) Italian women.
7. Artists of all types also flock to Italy for what reason?
(a) To study with the best teachers.
(b) To find inspiration and lifestyles that will suit their tastes.
(c) To buy supplies.
(d) To steal art work.
8. To what kind of music do visitors listen?
(a) Opera.
(b) Rock.
(c) Country.
(d) Rap.
9. What accounts for much of the male attention towards women in Italy?
(a) The women are threatening.
(b) The women are very demanding.
(c) The women are very beautiful.
(d) The women are intelligent.
10. Visitors to Italy often return when?
(a) Decades later.
(b) Never.
(c) The next week.
(d) The next year.
11. What was one of the major reasons for Italian travel?
(a) Religious pilgrimages to Rome.
(b) Work.
(c) Vacation.
(d) Wealth.
12. Giuseppe Balsamo is a contemporary of whom?
(a) Castagliola.
(b) Casanova.
(c) Cagliostro.
(d) Castiglione.
13. In ancient times, travel was _________________.
(a) Boring.
(b) Simple.
(c) Easy.
(d) Precarious at best.
14. Italy was on the route of the crusaders on their way to where?
(a) The Holy Land.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) Turkey.
15. The surface of Italian life has many characteristics of what?
(a) A play or show.
(b) A company.
(c) A law firm.
(d) A dictatorship.
Short Answer Questions
1. Amidst all this spectacle and beauty, however, live the Italians, viewed by many as what?
2. To what other kind of music do visitors listen?
3. This author asserts that a man must use tactics of mild deception at times in order to do what?
4. How do visitors attempt to speak?
5. Upon arrival, what were nearly impossible to find?
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