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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What are Mafia members called?
(a) Degli amici.
(b) Gli amici degli amici.
(c) Amico o nemico.
(d) Gli amici.
2. What do other Italians think of the better-educated Italians who have no need for these tools for living life as pain-free as possible?
(a) They can sometimes be perceived as being less Italian.
(b) They must not be Italian.
(c) They are crazy.
(d) They are more Italian.
3. The North supplies what to the South?
(a) Equipment and most consumer goods.
(b) Some consumer goods.
(c) Not much.
(d) Nothing.
4. On what was Guicciardini more focused?
(a) Providing advice to others.
(b) Improving life for his community.
(c) Protecting his family.
(d) Goals of prospering and wielding power.
5. Southerners would like to live better lives and would prefer that the gap between North and South would do what?
(a) Diminish.
(b) Be more distinct.
(c) Be moved farther north.
(d) Be moved farther south.
6. What becomes the center of Baroque life in all of Europe?
(a) Rome.
(b) London.
(c) Milan.
(d) Paris.
7. Mafia itself has how many meanings?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.
8. What are Sicilians able to avoid?
(a) Contact with Italians.
(b) Written laws.
(c) Paying taxes.
(d) Learning Italian.
9. The Northerner believes that wealth is the sure way to do what?
(a) Insure protection for the family.
(b) Cause stress.
(c) Have problems.
(d) Create enemies.
10. What does the Italian Code of Chivalry teach?
(a) The proper behavior between gentlemen when one is challenged by another.
(b) The proper behavior for treating others.
(c) The proper way to defend a woman.
(d) The proper way to defend oneself.
11. What else do Italians think about capitalism?
(a) They think it is only for the wealthy.
(b) They appreciate the outward aspects of it but do not believe it truly exists.
(c) They think it requires too much responsibility from the citizens.
(d) They cannot appreciate anything about it.
12. What other defense mechanism do the Italians use?
(a) They build powerful weapons.
(b) They mind their own business.
(c) They do not mind their own business.
(d) They have many allies.
13. The culture and qualities of the Italian people are ______________ on this island.
(a) Diminished.
(b) The same.
(c) Non-existent.
(d) Magnified.
14. Into what do males force women?
(a) Submission.
(b) Work.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Loveless relationships.
15. In return for protection, what does the family demand?
(a) Love.
(b) Money.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Absolute loyalty and all wrongs must be avenged.
Short Answer Questions
1. The confusion about the Mafia is almost always perpetuated by whom?
2. What did this man write?
3. Why will the situation not improve in the immediate future between the North and South?
4. The people of this island are extremely ________________.
5. What do Italians avoid at all costs?
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