View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must each member do to provide for the greater good of the family?
(a) Be willing to sacrifice finances.
(b) Be willing to sacrifice personal property.
(c) Be will to leave the family.
(d) Be willing to sacrifice personal property and finances if the situation calls for it.

2. The Northerner believes that wealth is the sure way to do what?
(a) Cause stress.
(b) Insure protection for the family.
(c) Have problems.
(d) Create enemies.

3. The culture and qualities of the Italian people are ______________ on this island.
(a) Magnified.
(b) Non-existent.
(c) The same.
(d) Diminished.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what do males force women?

2. What do Italians think of free expression?

3. 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?

4. In Sicily, each man's rank is determined by what?

5. Italians strive for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why will the gap between the Northerners and the Southerners not improve in the immediate future?

2. What is meant by mafioso?

3. How is Guicciardini a role model?

4. What is one difference between Northerners and Southerners?

5. Describe the organization of Italian groups.

6. What is the fundamental reason for why the South will not narrow the gap between itself and the North?

7. How are matters complicated?

8. What do Italians think of life? What group of Italians may think differently? What do most Italians think of this group?

9. Who is Francesco Guicciardini?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,206 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample