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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Peaceful Invasion, The Eternal Pilgrimage, The Fatal Charm of Italy and The Importance of Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do visitors attempt to speak?
(a) Loudly and slowly.
(b) Quietly.
(c) In Italian.
(d) With their hands.

2. Would most of these visitors consider doing any of these previously-mentioned activities in their own hometowns?
(a) Often.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Probably.

3. Amidst all this spectacle and beauty, however, live the Italians, viewed by many as what?
(a) Wealthy and powerful.
(b) Beautiful and kind.
(c) Deceitful, poor and dirty.
(d) Honest and straightforward.

4. Who flocks to Italy each year in increasing numbers?
(a) The elderly.
(b) Foreign visitors.
(c) Children.
(d) Italians.

5. Author Henry James claimed that the pleasure of Italy was inseparably tied to what?
(a) Its architecture.
(b) Its food.
(c) Its landscape.
(d) The human element.

Short Answer Questions

1. The largest number of visitors come from where?

2. What did many view Italians as deserving?

3. What accounts for much of the male attention towards women in Italy?

4. What was part of one's Italian education?

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

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