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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What accounts for much of the male attention towards women in Italy?
(a) The women are very demanding.
(b) The women are intelligent.
(c) The women are threatening.
(d) The women are very beautiful.
2. What was one of the major reasons for Italian travel?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Work.
(c) Religious pilgrimages to Rome.
(d) Vacation.
3. Who flocks to Italy each year in increasing numbers?
(a) Italians.
(b) Children.
(c) Foreign visitors.
(d) The elderly.
4. Visitors drink vast and indiscriminate quantities of ____________.
(a) Champagne.
(b) Wine.
(c) Coke.
(d) Beer.
5. What still remains in Italy?
(a) Pirates.
(b) Unhappy visitors.
(c) An unexplained charm.
(d) Crusaders.
Short Answer Questions
1. The largest number of visitors come from where?
2. For ages it has been the fate of the Italian people to grasp wealth and power so they achieve it through what?
3. Author Henry James claimed that the pleasure of Italy was inseparably tied to what?
4. What must be hidden?
5. Most visitors engage in ________________ activities.
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a part of Italy's charm? Explain this aspect.
2. Why is it believed that both Casanova and Cagliostro can be found in every Italian man?
3. What does the author say about the draw of the weather for visitors. What do you think about this?
4. How is Benito Mussolini an example of Italian showmanship gone wrong?
5. Who is Guiseppe Balsamo?
6. When is a time when an entire city used deception in order to perpetuate the necessary illusions?
7. How is Italian life like a play or show?
8. How does this opening affect the reader?
9. What is the third evil spirit? Describe it.
10. What is the first of the evil spirits? Describe it.
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