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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. Cardinal de Rohan of France believed that Cagliostro could do what?
(a) Win the heart of Marie Antoinette.
(b) Turn water into wine.
(c) Make gold and construct a huge diamond from several tiny stones.
(d) Make large structures out of gold and diamonds.

2. Why do these aristocrats live lives such as this?
(a) Only family matters.
(b) It is the only way of life they know.
(c) They only care about themselves.
(d) In order to host a huge banquet and ball once each year.

3. Balsamo was what?
(a) A chemist.
(b) An occultist.
(c) A goldsmith.
(d) A silversmith.

4. It is believed that there is both Casanova and Cagliostro in who?
(a) Every wealthy Italian man.
(b) Every foreign man.
(c) Every Italian man.
(d) Every man.

5. From what other parts of the world do visitors come?
(a) Russia, China, and Iran.
(b) Canada, the Middle East, and Asia.
(c) The Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
(d) Russia, Africa, and Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of behavior do tourists demonstrate?

2. What still remains in Italy?

3. What do female visitors believe about Italian men?

4. Visitors drink vast and indiscriminate quantities of ____________.

5. For ages it has been the fate of the Italian people to grasp wealth and power so they achieve it through what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was travel to Italy in ancient times?

2. In what activities to visitors take part?

3. Describe Cola di Rienzo.

4. How important are nonverbal gestures?

5. What is the second evil spirit? Describe it.

6. What is the first purpose of having life be like a show?

7. When is a time when an entire city used deception in order to perpetuate the necessary illusions?

8. What is ironic about the lives of Italians and the deception that is a part of life in this country?

9. What do you find to be a important feature of Italy?

10. What is the first of the evil spirits? Describe it.

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