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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. What helps Italians navigate through life with as little pain as possible?
(a) Prayers.
(b) A book of rules.
(c) Unwritten rules.
(d) Mantras.

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

3. The actions of Northerners move them_________ their goals through better jobs.
(a) Closer to.
(b) Away from.
(c) Farther from.
(d) The same distance as Southerners from.

4. Guicciardini served as _____________ and arrested and tortured those who disagreed with Papal decrees.
(a) Governor.
(b) Mayor.
(c) A priest.
(d) President.

5. How did Guicciardini command respect?
(a) With his wealth.
(b) With impressive speeches.
(c) With impressive shows of power and pomp.
(d) With his kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Italian Code of Chivalry teach?

2. What rises to power during this time and many people are tried, tortured and killed in the name of preserving the Church?

3. Most families attempt to remain faithful to what?

4. Everything during the Baroque period is done for what reason?

5. What else do Italians think about capitalism?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant by mafioso?

2. What is the social status of men and women in an Italian family?

3. At first glance, how does Italy appear?

4. What causes the confusion about the Mafia?

5. What is the main source of power for Italians? Describe this power.

6. What is the difference between mafia and Mafia?

7. What is required within an Italian family?

8. Who is Francesco Guicciardini?

9. How do the actions of the Northerners affect the achievement of their goals? How do the beliefs of the Southerners contrast this?

10. What is hidden under the facade that most foreigners know as Italy?

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