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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 is one book that reigns supreme in cases of conduct?
(a) I Ricordi.
(b) The Book of the Courtier.
(c) Codice Cavalleresco Italiano.
(d) La Mimica Degli Antichi Invesigate Nel Gestire Napoletano.

2. How else is mafioso used?
(a) To describe a person who is devious.
(b) To describe someone who is a murderer.
(c) To describe a person of prideful bearing.
(d) To describe a person who is rude.

3. All Italians share similar physical characteristics and methods for managing life, but there is a difference between the two geographical regions which has done what?
(a) Impacted the economies of each.
(b) Brought different types of tourists.
(c) Impacted the cultures of each.
(d) Not effected either economy.

4. The fundamental reason that the South will not narrow the gap between itself and the North is what?
(a) Southerners are not intelligent.
(b) Southerners do not want the gap narrowed.
(c) Southerners think in economic, not political terms.
(d) Southerners think in political, not economic, terms.

5. There are visible signs of material advantages in the North, but there is always the danger of what?
(a) Losing that advantage.
(b) Poverty and insecurity.
(c) Spiritual impoverishment and hedonism.
(d) Economic collapse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has the luxury of speaking about their dreams, ideals and justice?

2. What rises to power during this time and many people are tried, tortured and killed in the name of preserving the Church?

3. The best example of this philosophy is embodied by whom?

4. In exchange for protection by the Mafia, what happens to people?

5. In Sicily, each man's rank is determined by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the social status of men and women in an Italian family?

2. What is required within an Italian family?

3. What do most Italians think of contemporary capitalism?

4. Describe Sicily.

5. At first glance, how does Italy appear?

6. What do the Sicilians call the Mafia? What do Mafia members think of themselves?

7. What are the two major rules that must be followed to survive in Italian society?

8. Why will the gap between the Northerners and the Southerners not improve in the immediate future?

9. Describe the organization of Italian groups.

10. What are the elementary rules for survival in Italian society?

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