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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is necessary for each Italian to do what?
(a) Ward off the presence and the effects of these spirits the best he can.
(b) Ask for help from these spirits.
(c) Pray to these spirits.
(d) Give gifts to these spirits.

2. Cardinal de Rohan of France believed that Cagliostro could do what?
(a) Turn water into wine.
(b) Make gold and construct a huge diamond from several tiny stones.
(c) Win the heart of Marie Antoinette.
(d) Make large structures out of gold and diamonds.

3. 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.

4. How do female visitors feel about Italian males?
(a) They are too confident.
(b) They are rude and ignorant.
(c) They are annoying.
(d) They are irresistible and charming.

5. The core of Italian belief is that life is what?
(a) Strange.
(b) Catastrophic.
(c) Predictable.
(d) Beautiful.

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

7. In later years, people came to the cities of Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples to do what?
(a) Celebrate.
(b) Relax.
(c) Study.
(d) Eat.

8. Rohan attempts to deceive Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, in what?
(a) A jewelry scheme.
(b) A political battle.
(c) A marriage.
(d) A card game.

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

10. The passion for ______________ allows Italians to glide over life's surface leaving the ugly part as untouched as possible.
(a) Illusion.
(b) Each other.
(c) Family.
(d) Nature.

11. What did this city add to the building facades?
(a) Cardboard.
(b) Marble.
(c) Paint.
(d) Flags.

12. This author asserts that a man must use tactics of mild deception at times in order to do what?
(a) Protect Italy.
(b) Gain personal and business advantage.
(c) Help others.
(d) Defeat the enemy.

13. Author Henry James claimed that the pleasure of Italy was inseparably tied to what?
(a) Its landscape.
(b) Its food.
(c) The human element.
(d) Its architecture.

14. To what other kind of music do visitors listen?
(a) European bands.
(b) Heavy metal bands.
(c) Small town bands.
(d) Hugely popular bands.

15. What kind of behavior do tourists demonstrate?
(a) Slightly frenzied.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Bored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cagliostro is imprisoned where for a brief time?

2. Possibly nowhere else on earth can these things be found and indulged in with such ____________.

3. Upon arrival, what were nearly impossible to find?

4. What do female visitors believe about Italian men?

5. What did Giuseppe Balsamo call himself?

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