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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. Guicciardini is the role model for what?

2. What does the Italian Code of Chivalry teach?

3. What is the main source of power for all Italians?

4. Where do consolation, help, advice, provisions, loans, weapons, allies and accomplices lie?

5. What becomes the center of Baroque life in all of Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Sicily, how is each man's rank determined?

2. How are matters complicated?

3. Describe Sicily.

4. What have the Italians learned is their best defense against problems?

5. What do most Italians think of contemporary capitalism?

6. How is Guicciardini a role model?

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

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

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

10. What causes the confusion about the Mafia?

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

Sicily is an important faction in the geography of Italy.

Part 1) Describe Sicily. Why might it be so different from the rest of Italy?

Part 2) How might these differences add to the conflict existing between the Northerners and Southerners?

Part 3) How does Sicily's reputation foreshadow the development of the Mafia? is this reputation good? Why or why not? Would a Sicilian think it was good? Why or why not?

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