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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author admit about most Italian girls and young women?

2. Balsamo became involved in what?

3. Can the ordinary person worship amid such grandeur?

4. This author is a proponent of what?

5. Almost without fail, all who visit and return are drawn to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is tourism new to Italy? Why or why not?

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

3. What does the author say about the draw of the weather for visitors. What do you think about this?

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

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

6. Why is it believed that both Casanova and Cagliostro can be found in every Italian man?

7. Why must one be careful when falling in love in Italy?

8. What did author Henry James say regarding the pleasure of Italy?

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

10. How was travel to Italy in ancient times?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Italians do not understand capitalism.

Part 1) What is capitalism? Why do they not understand it?

Part 2) How is this inability to understand related to their beliefs regarding free speech?

Part 3) How does this affect governmental affairs, laws, and other legal situations?

Essay Topic 2

The Battle of Fornovo was very humiliating.

Part 1) What is the Battle of Fornovo? Why was it humiliating?

Part 2) How did the outcome of this battle affect Italians and their culture?

Part 3) How do the results of this battle still affect Italians today?

Essay Topic 3

Both Casanova and Cagliostro are said to be found in Italian men.

Part 1) How are they found in Italian men? Why is this believed?

Part 2) Is this good or bad? Why? Is there any parallel in American men? If so, what? If not, why not?

Part 3) How does superstition play into the Italian beliefs about life and illusion?

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