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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The surface of Italian life has many characteristics of what?
(a) A company.
(b) A dictatorship.
(c) A law firm.
(d) A play or show.

3. What was one of the major reasons for Italian travel?
(a) Vacation.
(b) Work.
(c) Religious pilgrimages to Rome.
(d) Wealth.

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

5. The people are even more aware of this when they know they are being observed?
(a) They do not have control over their lives.
(b) Their life is like a play or show.
(c) Their life is business.
(d) Their life revolves around the law.

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

7. Giuseppe Balsamo is a contemporary of whom?
(a) Casanova.
(b) Cagliostro.
(c) Castiglione.
(d) Castagliola.

8. One of the most prominent proponents of illusion was the author __________________.
(a) Giuseppe Balsamo.
(b) Benito Mussolini.
(c) Baldassar Castiglione.
(d) Giacomo Casanova.

9. Visitors drink vast and indiscriminate quantities of ____________.
(a) Champagne.
(b) Coke.
(c) Beer.
(d) Wine.

10. Who was this city trying to deceive?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) The Pope.
(d) Foreigners.

11. For what is Casanova noted?
(a) His political advances.
(b) His many amorous conquests.
(c) His poetry.
(d) His many works.

12. Does this magnificent place serve the purpose for which it was originally intended?
(a) Often.
(b) Yes.
(c) Usually.
(d) No.

13. Upon arrival, what were nearly impossible to find?
(a) Friends.
(b) Accommodations.
(c) Locals.
(d) Jobs.

14. Who is Giacomo Casanova?
(a) A politician.
(b) An author.
(c) A poet.
(d) An illustrious lover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For most males, what activity is primary?

2. In the cases of love where a man acts as if he is irresistibly attracted to a woman, can the woman know that his actions indicate true feelings?

3. Who practically formed the country's landscape over the years?

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

5. An Italian mother will care competently for her baby, but when she knows she has an audience, what will she do?

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