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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do visitors attempt to speak?
(a) Loudly and slowly.
(b) In Italian.
(c) With their hands.
(d) Quietly.

2. The largest number of visitors come from where?
(a) Russia and China.
(b) Greece and Turkey.
(c) South Korea and India.
(d) Northern Europe and the United States.

3. Whose knowledge of Italy's geography and culture is deep?
(a) The visitors.
(b) The politicians.
(c) The locals.
(d) The teachers.

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

5. What did Giuseppe Balsamo call himself?
(a) Giacomo Casanova.
(b) Baldassar Castiglione.
(c) Guiseppe Verdi.
(d) Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what kind of music do visitors listen?

2. Why do these aristocrats live lives such as this?

3. What accounts for much of the male attention towards women in Italy?

4. What was considered an invaluable part of a person's education?

5. What has drawn these people to Italy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about Italian life draws visitors?

2. Why do many visitors return often or stay permanently?

3. How was travel to Italy in ancient times?

4. Who is Guiseppe Balsamo?

5. What is the second evil spirit? Describe it.

6. What is the fourth evil spirit? Describe it.

7. What is a major reason for Italian travel?

8. What is the first of the evil spirits? Describe it.

9. What is the first purpose of having life be like a show?

10. How does this opening affect the reader?

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