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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. Regarding the answer to number 99, what is this man's career?
(a) Lawyer, diplomat, and historian.
(b) Doctor, politician, and teacher.
(c) Inventor, artist, and performer.
(d) Scientist, writer, and representative.

2. What becomes the center of Baroque life in all of Europe?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) London.
(d) Milan.

3. Guicciardini became a lawyer and went into what service in 1515?
(a) Political.
(b) Papal.
(c) Military.
(d) Corporate law.

4. What do most Italians think about contemporary capitalism?
(a) It cannot be trusted.
(b) It is worthless.
(c) It is too difficult to understand.
(d) They do not understand it.

5. Most families attempt to remain faithful to what?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Their government.
(c) Their friends.
(d) The perfect family as possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. The men may have many romantic affairs. What are the rights of the wives?

2. What do Sicilians prefer to call the Mafia?

3. The heads of Mafia organizations are usually _____________________ with impeccable manners and ingratiating charm which do not belie the cruelty underneath.

4. The Southerners work toward what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between mafia and Mafia?

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

3. Describe the organization of Italian groups.

4. What is required within an Italian family?

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

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

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

8. Describe the Mafia in Sicily.

9. Who is Francesco Guicciardini?

10. What is one difference between Northerners and Southerners?

(see the answer keys)

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