View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Problema Del Mezzogiorno, Sicily and the Mafia, Fornovo and After, The Perennial Baroque and Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most visitors engage in ________________ activities.
(a) Varying.
(b) The same.
(c) Different.
(d) Odd.

2. Why do Italians cling to illusions such as those exhibited by Casanova and Cagliostro?
(a) Real life is too dule to be endured without pretense.
(b) It keeps life exciting.
(c) Real life is too brutal and ugly to be endured without pretense.
(d) The visitors are drawn to this illusion.

3. Possibly nowhere else on earth can these things be found and indulged in with such ____________.
(a) Focus.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Abandon.
(d) Fear.

4. The surface of Italian life has many characteristics of what?
(a) A law firm.
(b) A play or show.
(c) A company.
(d) A dictatorship.

5. What rises to power during this time and many people are tried, tortured and killed in the name of preserving the Church?
(a) The Medieval Inquisition.
(b) The Holy Inquisition.
(c) The Portuguese Inquisition.
(d) The Spanish Inquisition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision do some visitors make according to this chapter?

2. Italians strive for what?

3. What does the Italian Code of Chivalry teach?

4. Why will the situation not improve in the immediate future between the North and South?

5. What are Sicilians able to avoid?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 283 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample