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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else do Italians think about capitalism?
(a) They think it requires too much responsibility from the citizens.
(b) They think it is only for the wealthy.
(c) They cannot appreciate anything about it.
(d) They appreciate the outward aspects of it but do not believe it truly exists.

2. Southerners would like to live better lives and would prefer that the gap between North and South would do what?
(a) Be moved farther north.
(b) Be moved farther south.
(c) Diminish.
(d) Be more distinct.

3. The Southerners work toward what?
(a) The acquisition of power and influence.
(b) Through the Church.
(c) Through deception.
(d) The acquisition of wealth.

4. What do Italians avoid at all costs?
(a) Being trapped.
(b) Being made to look foolish.
(c) Negative thoughts.
(d) Controlling others.

5. Italians strive for what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Concrete reasoning.
(c) Creative thinking.
(d) Free speech.

6. The North supplies what to the South?
(a) Some consumer goods.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Not much.
(d) Equipment and most consumer goods.

7. Is payment in the form of money?
(a) Not necessarily.
(b) Yes, usually.
(c) Yes, always.
(d) No, never.

8. How else is mafioso used?
(a) To describe someone who is a murderer.
(b) To describe a person who is devious.
(c) To describe a person who is rude.
(d) To describe a person of prideful bearing.

9. In return for protection, what does the family demand?
(a) Absolute loyalty and all wrongs must be avenged.
(b) Money.
(c) Love.
(d) Nothing.

10. After this very public humiliation on the world stage, Italy reverts to what?
(a) Negative attitudes.
(b) Its protective cover of illusion.
(c) Isolationism.
(d) Expansionism.

11. Guicciardini is the role model for what?
(a) The way all Italians would like to live.
(b) Acting based on one's beliefs and feelings.
(c) Caring for others.
(d) Separating personal emotions and thoughts in the conduct of reprehensible business.

12. What do Sicilians prefer to call the Mafia?
(a) Onorata societa.
(b) Cattivo societa.
(c) Forte societa.
(d) Pauroso societa.

13. The Northerners believe that what is the way to achieve their goals?
(a) The acquisition of wealth.
(b) Through the Church.
(c) Through deception.
(d) The acquisition of power and influence.

14. Almost everyone in Sicily understands what?
(a) The fact that the Italians cause many of the problems from which the Mafia protects people.
(b) The fact that the Sicilians cause many of the problems from which the Mafia protects people.
(c) The fact that the Mafia is a good source of protection.
(d) The irony that the Mafia often causes the problems from which it protects.

15. What is the main source of power for all Italians?
(a) Wealth.
(b) The family.
(c) Friends.
(d) The government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why could this man not achieve practical results?

2. After serving two more popes, Guicciardini returns to Florence and acts as local henchman for the powerful_________________ family even though he despises them.

3. The culture and qualities of the Italian people are ______________ on this island.

4. Within the family, the males reign supreme and Italian men are noted for what?

5. The actions of Northerners move them_________ their goals through better jobs.

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