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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Illusion and Cagliostro, The Other Face of the Coin, Cola di Rienzo or the Obsession of Antiquity, and Mussolini or the Limitations of Showmanship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polite lies and flattery are tools of the Italian people in order to do what?
(a) Earn wealth.
(b) Stay popular.
(c) Perpetuate the necessary illusions.
(d) Be happy.

2. Who found their way to Italy?
(a) Gauls and Britons.
(b) Russians and Mongolians.
(c) Barbarians and religious pilgrims.
(d) Franks and Saxons.

3. To what other kind of music do visitors listen?
(a) Hugely popular bands.
(b) Small town bands.
(c) European bands.
(d) Heavy metal bands.

4. What entire city enacted deception?
(a) Florence.
(b) Rome.
(c) Venice.
(d) Milan.

5. For what is Casanova noted?
(a) His political advances.
(b) His many amorous conquests.
(c) His poetry.
(d) His many works.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rohan attempts to deceive Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, in what?

2. Can the ordinary person worship amid such grandeur?

3. Does this magnificent place serve the purpose for which it was originally intended?

4. What must be hidden?

5. Amidst all this spectacle and beauty, however, live the Italians, viewed by many as what?

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