Question

According to a 1910 article you have read in this module, Italians were not viewed with great favor _______ for the Italians, like other men, have their peculiarities. They live in more or less large segregated groups, bound together by their common interests, having everything in their own ways, their own boarding-houses, their bars, their inns, their schools, their newspapers, their amusements and special quarters. They do not mix much with the people of the country they reside in, or try to make themselves sympathetic to the nation, while many of them are addicted to crimes of violence, perpetrated chiefly on the Italians themselves. for Italian, like other men, have their own peculiarities. They eat cannoli after lunch, drink bitter coffee, waste their day cooking tomatoes, and disrupt public order by gathering in large routy groups at street corners. for Italian, like other men, have their own peculiarities. They are prone to having multiple wives; drinking too much wine in the streets; being unreliable on the work place and eating too much garlic which prevents them from having normal social relations with non-Italians. for Italian are all gangsters.

Answer 1

Answer: Italians were not viewed with great favor on .

Explanation: The phrase "Look with favor on" (or "view with favor on") means that something is approved, or that someone views something positively. The text mentions that Italians are not like any other citizen in the world, because of their peculiarity and uncommon behavior. Therefore, the preposition "on" would fit well in the text, conveying that Italians were not very approved by other cultures.