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Questions second session 2024

APPLICATIONS FOR ACCESS TO THE COURSES

MASTER'S DEGREE IN MEDICINE
AND SURGERY AND IN DENTISTRY
AND DENTAL PROSTHESIS
AND VETERINARY MEDICINE
SECOND SESSION 2024

READING SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

ACQUIRED IN STUDIES

ATTENTION: for ease of consultation, all questions have the exact answer
indicated by the letter A

Request Which of the following, according to the Italian Constitution, is classified as

No. 1 a right-duty?
TO) The work
B) Health
C) The property
D) Religious belief
AND) Procreation

Request
What are the "Fundamental Principles" of the Italian Constitution?
No. 2
TO) A series of rules that express the indispensable values of the Italian State
B) Items of no practical value
C) Rules that list citizens' rights
D) Unwritten rules, but nevertheless existing
A set of articles that was added later, to interpret the others
AND)

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Request
The Italian Constitution defines the Catholic Church, in its order:
No. 3
TO) independent and sovereign
B) free
C) supreme and autonomous

D) authorized and delegated by the Italian State

AND) controlled by the Italian state

Request
According to the Constitution, judges are subject to:
No. 4
TO) only to the law
B) to Parliament
C) to nothing and no one
D) to the Head of State and the law
AND) to divine and human law

Request
According to the Constitution, the appointments of magistrates take place:
No. 5
TO) for competition
B) by popular election
C) by co-optation
D) by drawing lots
AND) by designation of the Superior Council of the Judiciary

Request According to the Constitution, the organization and functioning of services

No. 6 relating to justice are responsible for:
TO) to the Minister of Justice
B) to the Minister of Public Administration
C) to the Constitutional Court
D) to Parliament
AND) to the Head of State

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Request
According to the Constitution, the Republic protects health as:
No. 7
TO) fundamental right of the individual
B) interest of the individual
C) value of the individual
D) advantage of the individual
AND) duty of the individual

Request
According to the Constitution, sovereignty belongs to:
No. 8
TO) to the people

B) to Parliament
C) to the Head of State
D) to the Government

AND) to the Constitution

Request
According to article 1 of the Constitution, Italy is a Republic:
No. 9
TO) democratic
B) parliamentarian
C) constitutional
D) presidential
AND) populist

Request Does the Italian Constitution provide that the Italian legal system
No. 10 conforms to generally recognized norms of international law?
TO) Yes, it predicts it
B) Only to UN standards
C) European Union standards only
D) No, but leave the Government the right to do so
AND) No, it doesn't foresee it

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Which alternative is consistent with the content of the following

passage? What we eat has a strong impact on the environment around
us: not only in terms of polluting emissions, but also in terms of
biodiversity. A study published in PLOS ONE analyzed the impact
that 151 dishes belonging to different cultures of the world have on the
survival of mammals, birds and amphibians, and what has emerged is only in
Request
obvious part: among the most impactful there would in fact be not only
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meat recipes, but also vegan and vegetarian dishes based on rice and
legumes. To calculate the impact on biodiversity the authors have
looked at the richness, conservation status and variety of wild
mammals, birds and amphibians in agricultural land used for
cultivate or raise each ingredient that made up the dish: finally, by
combining the data, they calculated the footprint of each dish on biodiversity.
A scientific study shows that humanity's way of eating affects the
TO)
environment not only in terms of emissions, but also biodiversity
A scientific study has shown the falsity of vegan and vegetarian doctrines,
B) which advocate the consumption of dishes that are very harmful to the
environment and biodiversity
The 151 dishes most responsible for damage to biodiversity have
C)
finally been identified.
There is no cuisine in the world that does not damage biodiversity in some way.
D) Even vegetarian and vegan recipes are not exempt from the accusation, although it
is obvious that legumes cause less damage than meat
We need to realize that behind every dish there is an agricultural area that provides
AND) the plant or animal products necessary to compose it. We can thus speak of an
imprint of the plate

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following passage? The Greek
Pythagoras is considered one of the most brilliant and multifaceted minds
of all times. Founder in the 6th century BC of one of the first philosophical
schools of antiquity, throughout his life he was interested in the most disparate
subjects, from mathematics to astronomy, providing the basis for the foundation
of Western thought. After over 2,500 years, it is still there today
who denied (at least in part) the Pythagorean teaching which more than any
other influenced European musical theories. According to the philosopher, the
perfect formula for producing musical harmony, or a sound
Request pleasant and not out of tune composed of several notes, it must respect the
No. 12 so-called "consonance", i.e. a simple mathematical relationship between the
frequencies that compose it. According to this mechanism, precise exist
ratios capable of producing intervals considered consonant: in the
octave, for example, one of the two notes present in the chord has
exactly half or double the frequency of the other (ratio 1:2),
while in the fifth the ratio between the notes is 3:2. Much of the music
we know was built on this simple Pythagorean principle, but in reality it
seems that these proportions are not always valid, especially in cultures
that make use of little-known musical instruments
to the Western tradition.
The rules identified by Pythagoras to produce pleasant musical harmonies today
TO)
appear less absolute than before
The geometric theorem that Pythagoras placed at the basis of his musical theory has
B)
today been disavowed
C) Today's musical tastes are no longer like those of Pythagoras' time
Pythagoras was not as great in music as in other disciplines, and his
D)
theory of consonance no longer appears valid today
The relationship between notes has been rewritten thanks to contacts with different
AND)
cultures and the diffusion of new musical instruments

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? A lot

of material technology is also used in the playing surfaces:
if the clay and grass have remained essentially unchanged in
time (at Wimbledon since 2001, however, ryegrass has been used instead of
red fescue), the evolution has mainly concerned fast surfaces, which were
once made of concrete, carpet, plastic, while today they are made by
applying various resins and paints. To prepare the courts for the US Open,
Request for example, Laykold technicians use a machine that shoots balls
No. 13 onto the surface and measure friction and restitution, that is, how
much energy is lost after a bounce. Thus the speed of the
single field and make all those in the tournament uniform. While in the
past there was a large difference between fast and slow surfaces, today
this gap has narrowed, also at the request of the players. This is why
surface specialists are increasingly rare, and every time a
tournament it is difficult to imagine who will win. So that everything is
incredibly more compelling.
Material technology is used to make the fast surfaces of tournament tennis
courts uniform with each other. At the same time, the difference between
TO)
slow and fast surfaces has narrowed, so that surface specialists are
disappearing
Materials technology is bringing new interest to the game of tennis thanks to
B)
the possibility of measuring friction and restitution
By making tennis courts in resins and paints it is possible to measure
C) friction and restitution, i.e. how much energy is lost after a bounce

Material technology is responsible for the uniformity not only of the surfaces of
the tennis courts, but also of the players. This can be a good thing, as you can
D)
no longer predict who will win a tournament, thus making the game more
fascinating
Today there are no longer clay or grass tennis courts. Resins have
AND) supplanted them. This was asked by the players themselves, tired of
knowing who would win before the start of a tournament

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? In the transition

between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age
(950-750 BC), there is a complete change in the strategies of
territorial occupation and it is clear that a revolution occurred in
Etruria. Urban agglomerations and new forms of control were created
of the territory. In the eighth century, simultaneously with the legendary
foundation of Rome, the arrival of the Phoenicians and especially the Greeks from
The Eastern Mediterranean offers new opportunities and ideas, a new
visual language for art, religion and architecture, and even new writing.
Request The Etruscans were early and lively receptors and among the
No. 14 650 and 550 there was a phase of great creativity and change.
Subsequently, external and internal conflicts in Etruria slowed down the
pace of change and caused social upheavals in some areas and the
reduction of the Etruscan territory. Starting from 400 BC, the influence of the
Romans began to be felt; around 250 BC the conquest was more or
less complete and the first Roman colonies were founded in the territory
Etruscan; in the middle of the first century BC Etruscan autonomy had
already disappeared and evidence of the language was increasingly rare,
since the redistribution of lands carried out by Rome had undermined
the economic capacity of old cities.
Towards the end of the Bronze Age, Etruria experienced great changes - also
due to contacts with the Phoenicians and Greeks - at a settlement and cultural
TO)
level. But after 550 BC the Etruscan world began to decline, also due to the
action of the Romans
Starting from the Bronze Age, Etruria experienced a flourishing which culminated with
the beginning of the Iron Age, after which the first urban settlements were created.
B) The arrival of the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans followed one another, but Etruria
was already in crisis due to the occurrence of urban upheavals that undermined its
economic capabilities
It is with the beginning of the Iron Age that a revolution begins in Etruria, which
leads to a new territorial occupation and then to further social upheavals. These,
C)
however, were blocked by the action of the Romans, who damaged the Etruscan
cities
It is thanks to the arrival of the Phoenicians and Greeks that, around 950 BC, the flowering of
Etruria took place, which took on the appearance of a revolution. The creation of new urban
D) agglomerations, new ideas and new forms of culture ensured success which, however, was
undermined towards the fifth century BC by internal problems and by the Romans

Starting from the tenth century BC, Etruria experienced a flourishing of which traces can be
seen both in the methods of occupation of the territory and in the culture, influenced by
AND)
the Phoenicians and the Greeks. The foundation of Roman colonies, however, led to the
total disappearance of the Etruscan world around 400 BC

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following passage? The Etruscans
they have always been considered different. "They were a people with
customs different from anyone else", said the Greek writer Dionysius of
Halicarnassus, who had taken the trouble to study them, at the end of the first
century BC. For some, they were an example of debauchery: rich and licentious,
inclined to celebrations and pleasures. Others have placed emphasis on the
practice of piracy and their cruelty. Their devotion and religious knowledge
were renowned, feared and ridiculed. It was an Etruscan soothsayer who
warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of March. The Etruscans
Request
they were inventors: they are credited with the invention of the war trumpet,
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of the triumph ceremony (which the Romans appropriated), of boxing
and of the gladiatorial games, of the uniform and insignia of the magistrates.
Maecenas, the cultured friend of the emperor Augustus, was proud of his
descent from Etruscan kings. Yet, like many other peoples of the ancient world,
they have not handed down their literary texts and their history to us. The
silence of the Etruscans, aggravated by the disappearance of their own language
already in ancient times, appears deafening, considering the richness of
their material culture and the evident power they exercised for as many as 5 years
centuries.

The ancients looked at the Etruscans with a very varied and even
TO)
contradictory set of feelings
Erroneously, the Etruscans already appeared to the ancients as a people endowed
B)
with very particular characteristics
We owe Dionysius of Halicarnassus the image of the Etruscan people as
C) different from that of all the others. The lack of Etruscan literature does not
allow us to deny this idea
We cannot know who the Etruscans really were, because the prejudices of
D)
other peoples accumulated on them
The Etruscans vanished in the first century BC without leaving literary
AND)
evidence that could shed light on them

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following

passage? Gabinius or Crassus had no particular reason to invade
Parthia, whose foreign policy towards Rome, if not towards others,
it was essentially peaceful. Rome began hostilities with the actions and
initiatives of Pompey the Great. Although the Romans did not yet understand
To stage a full-scale invasion, once the threat posed by Mithridates was
Request eliminated, Pompey no longer had any reason to make concessions to the
No. 16 Parthians because their help was no longer needed. He arrived like this
the moment of direct confrontation between the two powers. Several
studies have revealed that a series of actions created Roman foreign policy
of commanders in the field and the resulting decisions of the Senate.
There were no "secret plans" conceived to occupy Parthia, but the
aggressive acts of ambitious generals and emperors created a pattern of
hostile relations between the two empires.

The clash between Rome and Parthia was not planned, but occurred as a
TO) consequence of a deterioration in relations essentially attributable to the
Roman commanders
The Parthians were not aggressive towards other peoples and were not to blame for
B) the start of hostilities with Rome. Mithridates' exit from the scene was the trigger that
started the drama
Although he had no intention of launching an invasion of Parthia, Pompey was
C)
no friend to her and undertook a series of hostile acts against her
It was Mithridates' departure from the scene that determined the clash between Rome and
D) Parthia, although an invasion had never been planned on the Roman side. However, before
that moment, the hostile actions of the Romans had been numerous
Rome's policy towards Parthia was dictated by a series of extemporaneous, but
AND) always hostile, initiatives taken in the field by the commanders, who however
did not intend to open hostilities

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? In

fact, we can even dream of the possibility that techniques will be
developed to capture a black hole thanks to its gravitational field
(very intense in its immediate vicinity, but very small overall)
and force it to deviate from its trajectory just enough to miss
the Earth if it were headed exactly towards it. This could be a
side effect of space exploration that might be worth cultivating
even at the cost of spending large sums of money. Those who
Request
engage in speculation well in advance of the present possibilities
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of science, and who delight in dreaming fantastic visions of the
future, might even hope that a hole
black is relatively close to the Earth (obviously at a safe
distance). A black hole, after all, implies the possibility of accessing
enormous energies. Any object that was captured in its
gravitational field and progressively approached it, traveling along a
ever tighter spiral, would radiate during this process
large amounts of energy.
The possibility of deviating a black hole from its trajectory, and therefore
TO) saving us, by interacting with its gravitational field is at least imaginable,
as is the dream of using the latter to produce energy
The hypothesis of being able to interact with black holes belongs to the field of science
B) fiction. We can only imagine being able to push them away if they threaten us or even
exploit them to produce energy
The key to interacting with black holes is their gravitational field. It is
not so strong that it cannot be tamed to push the hole away from us,
C)
if it were threatening. At the same time, it could be used to produce
energy
If a black hole got close enough to us - but always remained at a safe
D) distance - we could also think of being able to obtain energy from its
gravitational field
If a black hole threatened us, its gravitational field would offer us not only the
AND) possibility of deviating it from its orbit and therefore saving us, but even of
extracting large quantities of energy from it

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following passage?

Biology, for its part, has opened up to uncertainty. The appearance of life
corresponds to the transformation of a vortex of macromolecules into
a new type of organization, capable of self-organizing, self-repairing, self-
reproducing, capable of drawing organization, energy and information from
its environment, but this origin does not seem to respond
Request
to any unavoidable necessity. It still remains a mystery, on which
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scenarios continue to be developed. In any case, life was able to be born
only in a mix of chance and necessity of which we cannot measure the
mixture. We are still profoundly uncertain about the inevitable or fortuitous,
necessary or miraculous nature of the appearance of life, and
this uncertainty evidently affects the meaning of our lives
human.
Uncertainty about the origin of life is not without consequences for the
TO)
meaning of our existences
B) We will never understand how life originated
We can neglect to investigate the too complex process that led to the
C) formation of life, to focus instead on the meaning of human existence

The essence of life lies in its ability to overcome that inescapable

D)
necessity that called it to non-existence
The vortex of macromolecules that gave rise to life is reflected by the uncertainty
AND) of biology. Yet, understanding the origin of life would have weight in explaining
the meaning of our lives

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? The

presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in various organs of our body is now
documented by numerous scientific research. Now, however, for the first time,
an association has been identified between this form of
internal contamination and a health effect. A study coordinated by the
Request University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli of Caserta, and published
No. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine, has in fact discovered that
polyethylene and PVC nanoparticles can accumulate in plaques which, by
blocking the arteries, threaten the health of the heart and vessels. «If this
happens, the risk of experiencing events such as strokes and heart attacks, or
death, increases four and a half times" explains Francesco Prattichizzo, researcher
at the IRCCS MultiMedica in Milan, one of the authors of the study.
A study by Vanvitelli University has documented for the first time a
TO) correlation between the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in the
human body and highly harmful, potentially lethal, effects on health.
A study by Vanvitelli University, published in the New England Journal of
B) Medicine, has clarified for the first time the presence of microplastics and
nanoplastics in various organs of our body
Strokes and heart attacks, which can lead to death, are due to the presence
C) of microplastics and nanoplastics in various organs of the human body. This
was clarified by a study by Vanvitelli University
Polyethylene and PVC nanoparticles can accumulate in plaques, thus threatening
the health of the heart and vessels. Francesco Prattichizzo, researcher at the IRCCS
D)
MultiMedica in Milan, explains that the risk of stroke, heart attack and death is high

As Francesco Prattichizzo showed in his research published in the New England

Journal of Medicine, polyethylene and PVC nanoparticles accumulate in the
AND)
organs of the human body. Prattichizzo is a researcher at IRCCS MultiMedica in
Milan

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Which of the following alternatives is the logical conclusion of the passage

following?
Economic theory cannot be content with describing the truths of
life: political economy has the task of helping public opinion to do
something to remedy manifest evils and the electorate, if it really
Request
desires and has the means to improve the quality of economic life. But,
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as conservatives like to say, there's "no such thing as a free
lunch." What costs will you need to bear to get the benefit of
higher Net Economic Wellbeing? We will show that, if you want
fight pollution and the degradation of cities, we must
increase taxes and electricity tariffs: ...
TO) we cannot therefore pretend that we can get something in exchange for nothing
B) only reasonable degrowth can help the environment
C) one must guard against excessive euphoria
the latter may be offset by a reduction in income taxes
D)
AND) only in this way will GDP be able to grow again

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Which of the following alternatives correctly summarizes the passage

following?
Syndicalism originated throughout the West partly from medieval
guilds and partly from other circumstances. In past centuries wages were
very low everywhere and, as productivity was also very high
reduced, no redistribution of the social cake could give the
average individual an adequate slice. But the employed workers felt
particularly poor, uninformed and at the mercy of their bosses, who
Request
in every conflict had greater possibilities of resistance and who
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organized the factories according to dictatorial criteria. Gradually
workers discovered that there is strength in numbers and that by acting in a
concerted manner their bargaining power grew. They began to meet in taverns
and places of worship and then formed mutual fraternal associations
assistance, which in addition to providing various insurance services took care
of the education and free time of the members. They also agreed on the uniform
wages that all members had to demand from their employers
Work.
In the West, very poorly paid workers gathered in associations that
TO) pursued various goals of common interest. Among them, there was
also that of demanding certain wages from employers
The problem of low productivity was solved thanks to associations
B) among wage workers. The latter were in effect at the mercy of their
employers
Western trade unionism has at least partly medieval origins, being located
C) in corporations. Both taverns and churches became suitable places to
meet and spend free time
In past centuries, employees were poor and uninformed, as well as at the
D) mercy of their employers, who had a greater chance of resistance in every
conflict
The greater resistance capacity of employers and the dictatorial organization of
the workplace that they imposed were the cause of both low productivity and
AND)
the unequal distribution of the social cake. Trade unionism provided a partial
remedy for this state of affairs

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? Vaccines

are biological preparations made up of microorganisms killed or whose
danger has been reduced (with specific treatments), or of some of their
antigens, or of substances produced by the microorganisms and made safe,
no longer dangerous for human beings. Vaccines generally also contain
sterile water (or a saline-based physiological solution)
and some may also contain, in small quantities, an adjuvant for
improve the response of the immune system, a preservative (or an
antibiotic) to prevent contamination of the vaccine by bacteria, and
Request some stabilizer to keep the properties of the vaccine unaltered
No. 22 vaccine during storage. Vaccines work by stimulating our immune
system to produce antibodies against the disease, as if the
body had been infected by it. Since their discovery, they have
represented a great step forward for science and medicine
he was able to defeat some diseases that had not been combatable until then.
The introduction of vaccines has led to a notable improvement in the fight against
the pathologies in question. Many diseases have almost been eradicated
from European countries, such as polio and smallpox. Unfortunately, however, they
they still survive in countries where economic conditions do not
allow large distribution of vaccines to the population.
Vaccines are composed of a set of substances that serve different purposes, but
their purpose is to stimulate the body to produce antibodies against the disease for
TO) which the vaccine is being vaccinated. In European countries, thanks to vaccines,
many diseases have been fought or eradicated, but they still persist in the poorest
ones
Vaccines are biological preparations. There are microorganisms killed or whose
B) danger has been reduced, antigens, substances produced by microorganisms and
made safe, sterile water, adjuvants, preservatives, stabilizers
The aim of the vaccine is to stimulate the body to produce antibodies, as if it had been
infected with a disease. For this reason, vaccines contain, in addition to other elements,
C)
microorganisms that have been killed or rendered harmless. However, the economic
conditions of countries determine the effectiveness of vaccines
Vaccines are prepared with various substances that serve different
purposes. There are for example antigens, sterile water, antibiotics and
D) stabilizers. The vaccine affects the immune system, so that it cannot
oppose those substances (such as killed microorganisms) that cause the
onset of the disease
In the history of science and medicine, an important place must be
recognized for vaccines, which have made it possible to combat many
AND)
diseases and even eradicate them. However, this only happens in richer
countries, because poorer ones have to make do with lower quality vaccines

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? To

distinguish earthquakes according to their intensity, the seismologist
Giuseppe Mercalli (1850-1914) proposed in 1902 a scale divided into 10
degrees of increasing intensity (modified in 1931 and finally perfected in
1956, when it was raised to twelve degrees), based on the observation of the
effects caused by a seismic event. The Mercalli scale, however, has the defect of
being linked to subjective estimates and factors not strictly correlated with the
earthquake and is insufficient for determining the energy developed by the
earthquake. The intensity attributed to an earthquake based on this scale is
Request unreliable because the damage varies considerably depending on the intensity
No. 23 distance from the epicenter, the nature of the terrain, the density of
human settlements and the type of materials used in the construction of
buildings. For example, if the earthquake hits an area where buildings are
built with anti-seismic criteria, it will have to have a high intensity to
cause damage to the foundations, while to cause the same type of
damage to ancient or dilapidated buildings will require an earthquake with a much
lower intensity; based on the Mercalli scale, however, both earthquakes appear to have
the same degree. To be able to compare earthquakes with each other
it is therefore necessary to use a quantity that is independent of the
level of urbanization and type of construction.
The Mercalli Scale, used for measuring earthquakes, suffers from the limit of
dependence on factors not connected with the earthquake: it is in fact based on the
observation of the effects of the earthquake, which can vary considerably
TO)
depending on various factors, such as the nature of the land or the type of
buildings found there. A different kind of scale is therefore needed to measure
earthquakes
Giuseppe Mercalli was the seismologist who in 1902 developed a scale for
measuring earthquakes. Initially the scale included 10 degrees, but after
B)
Mercalli's death it was modified a first time in 1931 and a second time in
1956. Mercalli had in fact died in 1914
Although completed only in 1956, and therefore after the death of its brilliant author, the
Mercalli Scale has the merit of having constituted the first instrument for measuring
C)
earthquakes. It was based on the observation of the damage caused by the earthquake, but
for this very reason it did not produce unambiguous results
If we evaluate the intensity of an earthquake only starting from the damage it causes, factors
D) such as, for example, the level of urbanization and the materials used will determine the
results without enlightening us on the real intensity of the phenomenon
The seismologist Mercalli developed a scale for measuring earthquakes in
1902. Initially, it was based on damage observation. It was perfected several
AND) times, even after Mercalli's death. The latest version ignores subjective
variables, such as the level of urbanization and the type of construction

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? The 20th

century received the impulse from the previous century to continue on the path of
expressive research increasingly independent of sensitive experience and
increasingly foreign to the tradition of our Western civilization in one
now consecrated freedom of themes. Searches and achievements
generate from each other with a speed and with a breadth of scope
Request previously unusual: the universal language of art favors international
No. 24 movements. Painting and sculpture, whose distinction always goes
becoming more attenuated, they produce images of all possible realities,
psychic, rational, unconscious, existential up to the casual ones, initially in a
competitive position, by analogy or by contrast, with science and
technique, therefore increasingly insistently affirming their independence
from the consumer economy, their being "other" from everything
until "behavioural values" are achieved.
In the 20th century, art accentuated its character of research, novelty,
overcoming boundaries and distancing itself from sensitive experience. Its
TO) yearning for new realities leads it to establish itself as an area absolutely
independent from any other, which even leads to new behavioral values

The 20th century produced an alien art, detached from the previous Western tradition and
B) aimed at exploring the unconscious, the psychic, the existential, the casual. The enemy is
consumerism, but also science and technology
Perhaps the key to the transformation of art in the 20th century lies in the achieved
confusion between painting and sculpture: a reflection of the distancing from sensitive
C)
experience and the entry of the psychic, the unconscious and the casual among artistic
themes.
Unscrupulous expressive research, detachment from experience, a look at the
existential as well as the casual. These are the themes of 20th century art, caught
D)
between consumerism, science and technology and in search of its own space. But what
it expresses is anguish
New behavioral values are those that 20th century art places at the center of
AND) attention. But it must claim its own space, at the cost of taking it away from
science and technology. His unreal realizations are the vehicle of those

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Which of the following alternatives is the logical conclusion of the passage

following?
Orcas are social animals, and exploit the combined strength of the pod
for their hunting trips. Port and Starboard in particular are
inseparable: their forays along the South African coast have been
documented since 2017. It is particularly impressive that they hunt
white sharks, considered to be at the pinnacle of the food web.
However, Starboard was the protagonist of an event that has so far been
Request
exceptional: he was seen single-handedly killing a great white shark (we don't
No. 25
know where Port was during the incident). The impact of the two orcas on the
sharks (not just the white ones) of South Africa is enormous, and the fact that Port
and Starboard are now apparently learning to hunt on their own is
Even more worrying: other strategies could emerge that the sharks
are not prepared for, and this could have an even bigger impact on
their population. Not to mention removing the sharks
white from the ecosystem equation means altering the balance in
still unpredictable ways: ...
the risk, according to scholars, is that the entire western coast of South Africa
TO)
could suffer the effects of this massacre - which is no longer just a couple
it is therefore hoped that Starboard a Port will spontaneously return to hunting in
B)
pairs
the end of the social relationship that binds orcas is already a very
C)
worrying alarm bell
try to imagine what could happen if, after the disappearance of the
D)
sharks, the orcas turned their attention to humans
what is unpredictable cannot, by definition, be predicted. All that remains is to
AND)
wait

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Which of the following alternatives is the logical conclusion of the passage

following?
The territorial song of small songbirds is transmitted by
learning from parent to children. It often happens that individuals
belonging to different populations of the same species sing with songs that
Request are slightly different from each other: we then speak of dialects. The main
No. 26 function of the territorial song is the proclamation of possession of the
territory, and this vocalization has an attractive effect for the females of the
same species and a terrifying one for the males. Since it is important for each
individual to learn the song of his own species, it is easy to understand how
the time during which it can be learned is limited to the period
of parental care.
Beyond this period learning can no longer take place and the learned
TO)
song can no longer be modified
Songbirds have no other means of communicating with members of their
B)
species other than singing
C) Other animal species have also developed the ability to sing
The importance of song, however, appears limited, if not secondary, in the life
D)
of birds
Now we are likely to hear birdsong differently and appreciate it more
AND)

Which alternative is consistent with the content of the following passage?

Animals are heterotrophs and as such they must, for their needs
energy, taking in already formed organic substances, proteins, sugars and
fats already present in an organized form in foods from the outside. The
problem of animals is therefore not that, typical of plants, of composing
Request
organic substances, but rather that of breaking down these organic
No. 27
substances into smaller molecules, such that from the external world
can enter, crossing the cell membrane, into the internal world of
the cells. For this purpose, foods are subjected to a series of
treatments, mechanical and biochemical, capable of isolating the molecules
constitutive organics.
Animals must isolate the organic molecules that make up food in
TO)
order to eat it
Heterotrophs, animals satisfy their energy needs thanks to cell
B)
membranes
The food philosophy of animals and plants is opposite, given that the former must
C) take in already formed organic substances from the outside, while the others must
break them down
Unlike plants, which make up organic substances, animals break
D)
them down, feeding exclusively on plants
Proteins, sugars and fats must become organic substances so that
AND)
animals can feed on them

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following passage?

The universe is made up of billions of galaxies which host countless suns with
their planets, it is therefore very likely that at least in some of
these exist conditions similar to those on Earth. Asking questions and
expecting to have the answer as soon as possible is typically human, but
the stars were once too far away to reveal their mysteries; when i
Request large telescopes brought them closer to the Earth, man had the
No. 28 sensation of having them at hand and began to entertain the idea of
navigating in space in search of new landing places where he could find
finally the truth. The dream became reality when the first space probe
guided from the ground, breaking the shackles of gravity, reached
escape velocity, aiming beyond human boundaries. That day a
new era truly began, that of astronautics, in which it is hoped that
man can find the solution to many of his problems.
TO) Navigating in space is possible today
B) Whether or not we are alone in the universe, we will finally be able to determine it now
C) The force of gravity has long harnessed humanity's dreams
A new era, in which perhaps old problems will be solved, has opened with the
D)
human landing on the Moon
Space travel has opened up the possibility for us to reach other planets where
AND)
life exists

Request Iatrochemistry, a discipline based on the treatment of diseases through

No. 29 the use of mineral substances, was created by:
TO) Paracelsus
B) Christiaan Huygens
C) William Gilbert
D) Tycho Brahe
AND) Robert Boyle

Request
Who discovered rabies vaccination?
No. 30
TO) Louis Pasteur
B) Shibasaburo Kitasato
C) Emil Adolf von Behring
D) Edward Jenner
AND) Maurice Hilleman

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Request
The work "The Origin of Species" was written in the century:
No. 31
TO) nineteenth
B) twentieth
C) eighteenth
D) seventeenth
AND) sixteenth

Request
The uncertainty principle was expressed by:
No. 32
TO) Werner Karl Heisenberg
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) Albert Einstein
D) Claude-Louis Navier and George Stokes
AND) Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille

Request
In astronomy the gravitational constant of:
No. 33
TO) Gauss
B) Hawking
C) Einstein
D) Newton
AND) Thompson

Request
Which of the following is NOT a basic science of medicine?
No. 34
TO) Entomology
B) Anatomy
C) Biology
D) Biochemistry
AND) Cytology

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Request
Foucault carried out his famous experiment with a pendulum:
No. 35
TO) in the Panthéon in Paris
B) in the Pantheon in Rome
C) hanging from the Tower of Pisa

D) in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg

AND) hanging from the Tower of London

Request
Foucault's 1851 experiment was aimed at demonstrating:
No. 36
TO) the rotation of the Earth
B) the precession of the equinoxes
C) the law of universal gravitation
D) inductivity
AND) uniform rectilinear motion

Request
In physics, the cage of:
No. 37
TO) Faraday
B) Time
C) Franklin
D) Carnot
AND) Maxwell

Request
The experimental method is based:
No. 38
TO) on observation
B) on the deduction
C) on induction
D) on the innate

AND) on the eternal

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Request
What is CERN in Geneva?
No. 39
TO) The European Organization for Nuclear Research
B) The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
C) The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
D) The International Trade Organization
AND) An international tribunal

Request
The acronym WHO indicates:
No. 40
TO) The World Health Organization
B) The United Nations Organization
C) The International Maritime Organization
D) The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
AND) The World Bank

Request
The World Health Organization is headquartered in:
No. 41
TO) Geneva
B) Rome
C) Montreal
D) New York
AND) Helsinki

Request
The discovery of the electron is due to:
No. 42
TO) Joseph J. Thomson
B) Hantarō Nagaoka
C) Michael Faraday
D) James Chadwick
AND) Niels Bohr

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Request
The planetary model of the atom is due to:
No. 43
TO) Ernest Rutherford
B) Max Planck
C) Henri Becquerel
D) Edwin Hubble
AND) Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Request
The initiator of quantum physics was:
No. 44
TO) Max Planck
B) Ernest Rutherford
C) Albert Einstein
D) James Clerk Maxwell
AND) Pierre Curie

Request Napoleon I's Russian campaign is the backdrop to a novel

No. 45 of the nineteenth century. Which?

TO) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy

B) "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin
C) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
AND) "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal

Request
Who is the author of the novel "The Great Gatsby"?
No. 46
TO) Francis Scott Fitzgerald
B) John Steinbeck
C) Jack Kerouac
D) Oscar Wilde
AND) Edgar Allan Poe

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Request In Torquato Tasso's verses "The pious shepherd cried to his tears", which
No. 47 rhetorical figure is it possible to trace?
TO) Alliteration
B) Climax
C) Metaphor
D) Antonomasia
AND) Similarity

Request What does the Latin term "Myricae" indicate, the title of a collection of poems by
No. 48 Giovanni Pascoli?
It refers to humble plants and wants to indicate a simple poem, made of
TO)
small things
B) It is taken from the "Satires" of Horace, and is intended as a tribute to the Latin poet
It refers to plants and wants to indicate a poetry as hard and harsh as
C)
shrubs
D) Indicates a name of the woman to whom the poems of a love nature are dedicated
AND) It indicates destiny and is meant to signify the tragic nature of poetry

Request What does the Greek term "Decameron" indicate, the title of a work by
No. 49 Boccaccio?
TO) The ten days in which the action takes place
B) The one hundred short stories collected in the work

C) The ten short stories told by the protagonists

D) The ten young friends protagonists of the work
AND) The ten rooms of the house where the protagonists find themselves

Request Which of the following battles was NOT fought during the first
No. 50 world war?
TO) El Alamein
B) Sixth battle of the Isonzo
C) Verdun
D) Caporetto
AND) Vittorio Veneto

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Request In which Italian city, in 1848, did the so-called insurrection occur
No. 51 "five days" against Austrian domination?
TO) Milan
B) Turin
C) Naples
D) Palermo
AND) Venice

Request
Which of the following conflicts ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles?
No. 52
TO) First World War
B) American Civil War
C) Spanish Civil War
D) Second World War
AND) Vietnam War

Request Which supranational body was established in 1919 at the end of the
No. 53 Versailles conference?
TO) League of Nations
B) United Nations
C) BORN
D) International Monetary Fund
AND) International Committee of the Red Cross

Request Which of the following events in 1929 gave rise to the "Great
No. 54 depression" in the United States?
TO) The collapse of the New York Stock Exchange

B) Increased spending on war reparations

C) Great Britain abandons the gold standard system
D) The approval of the New Deal
AND) The attack on Pearl Harbor

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Request Which of the following alternatives puts the events in the correct order
No. 55 chronological?
Attack on Pearl Harbor - Allied landing in Sicily - Normandy landing
TO)
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Attack on Pearl Harbor - atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
B)
Allied landing in Sicily - Normandy landing
Normandy landing - Allied landing in Sicily - attack on Pearl Harbor
C)
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Attack on Pearl Harbor - Normandy landing - Allied landing in Sicily
D)
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Attack on Pearl Harbor - atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
AND)
Normandy landings - Allied landing in Sicily

Request Which of the following political figures became prime minister during the
No. 56 reign of Louis XIII?
TO) Cardinal Richelieu
B) Jean-Baptiste Colbert
C) Maximilien de Robespierre
D) Michel de Montaigne
AND) Philip II of Bourbon-Orléans

Request In which of the following historical periods did the proclamation of the
No. 57 Kingdom of Italy?
TO) Risorgimento
B) Renaissance
C) First World War
D) Restoration
AND) Cold War

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Request Which of the following alternatives puts the events in the correct order
No. 58 chronological?
Congress of Vienna - Mazzini founds Young Italy - first war of
TO) independence against the Austrian Empire - expedition of the Thousand -
proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy
First war of independence against the Austrian Empire - Congress of Vienna -
B) Mazzini founds Young Italy - Expedition of the Thousand - Proclamation of the
Kingdom of Italy
Congress of Vienna - Expedition of the Thousand - First War of Independence
C) against the Austrian Empire - Mazzini founds Young Italy - Proclamation of the
Kingdom of Italy
First war of independence against the Austrian Empire - Congress of Vienna -
D) Expedition of the Thousand - Mazzini founds Young Italy - proclamation of the
Kingdom of Italy
Mazzini founds Young Italy - Expedition of the Thousand - Proclamation of the
AND) Kingdom of Italy - First War of Independence against the Austrian Empire -
Congress of Vienna

Request In which of the following historical contexts was the Declaration of the
No. 59 human and citizen rights?
TO) French Revolution
B) First post-war period
C) Risorgimento
D) Cold War
AND) Second World War

Request
Who were the protagonists of the Russian Revolution of 1917?
No. 60
TO) Lenin and Trotsky
B) Lenin and Stalin
C) Stalin and Bukharin
D) Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky
AND) Lenin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev

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Request Who was the president of the United States at the time of the atomic attack on
No. 61 Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945?
TO) Harry Truman
B) Dwight D. Eisenhower
C) Franklin D. Roosevelt
D) John F. Kennedy
AND) Lyndon B. Johnson

Request
In what period did the British writer Charles Dickens live and work?
No. 62
TO) In the Victorian age
B) In the Elizabethan age
C) In the Edwardian age
D) Between the two world wars
AND) In the early post-war period

Request
"The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa recalls:
No. 63
the transformations of the transition from the Bourbon Kingdom to the
TO)
Kingdom of Italy observed by a noble Sicilian family
the dramatic story of a family of Jewish origins in Ferrara during the
B)
Second World War
the political and social problems of the post-war period through the gaze of a group of
C)
boys
D) the story of a mafia crime in Sicily in the 1960s
the years of confinement of a doctor in a small Lucanian village for his anti-fascist
AND)
positions

Request In the expression 'let's have a glass' what rhetorical figure is possible
No. 64 trace?
TO) Metonymy
B) Anaphora
C) Metaphor
D) Hyperbole
AND) Climax

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Request
Which of the following is NOT a work by William Shakespeare?
No. 65
TO) Aminta
B) Much ado about nothing
C) The storm
D) Othello
AND) King Lear

Request Indicate which of the following alternatives does NOT indicate the correct one
No. 66 author - work pairing.
TO) Gustave Flaubert - "The Plague"
B) Stendhal - "The red and the black"
C) Victor Hugo - "Les Miserables"
D) Jules Verne - "Around the World in 80 Days"
AND) Alexandre Dumas (father) - "The Three Musketeers"

Request
Which of these works by Dante Alighieri is written in Latin?
No. 67
TO) De Monarchia
B) The rhymes

C) Vita Nova
D) The Divine Comedy
AND) The Convivium

According to the Italian Constitution, the foreigner who is prevented from his
Request
country the effective exercise of democratic freedoms guaranteed by
No. 68
Italian Constitution:
TO) has the right to asylum in the territory of the Republic
B) has the right to shelter in the territory of the Republic
C) has the right to asylum in the territory of the European Union
D) has the right to escape within the territory of the Republic
AND) has the right to live in the territory of the Republic

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Request According to the Constitution, no one can be punished except by virtue of a

No. 69 law:
TO) that came into force before the act was committed
B) that came into force after the crime was committed
C) that was known to him before the crime was committed
D) that was known to him after the crime committed
AND) which was accepted by him before the crime was committed

Request
According to the Constitution, punishments cannot consist of treatments:
No. 70
TO) contrary to the sense of humanity
B) contrary to the sense of sociality
C) punitive
D) definitive
AND) afflictive

Request
According to the Constitution, penalties must aim to:
No. 71
TO) to the re-education of the condemned
B) to the reinstatement of the convicted person

C) to the elimination of the condemned

D) to the elimination of social danger
AND) to the edification of the condemned

Request According to the Constitution, marriage is ordered on the equality ... of

No. 72 spouses.
TO) moral and legal
B) economical
C) social
D) political-social
AND) voluntary

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Request According to the Constitution, it is the duty of parents to support, educate and
No. 73 educate children:
TO) even if born out of wedlock
B) only if born within marriage
C) only if legitimate
D) only if natural
AND) only if legitimate or legitimized

Request Which of the following alternatives reports the correct match between a
No. 74 organ of the State and its characteristic function?
TO) Government - executive function
B) Parliament - executive function
C) Parliament - judicial function
D) Government - legislative function
AND) Court of Cassation - legislative function

Request Jane Austen's major novels revolve around the provincial world
No. 75 and to the daily life of which social class?
TO) The gentry, or landed nobility
B) The working class
C) The city bourgeoisie
D) The peasantry, or peasant class
AND) The urban underclass

Request Indicate which of the following alternatives does NOT indicate the correct one
No. 76 author-work pairing.
TO) Franz Kafka - "Tonio Kröger"
B) Thomas Mann - "The Buddenbrooks"
C) Marcel Proust - "In search of lost time"
D) James Joyce - "Ulysses"
AND) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "The elective affinities"

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Request Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, British sisters and writers, lived and
No. 77 they operated:

TO) in the first half of the nineteenth century

B) during the twentieth century

C) in the second half of the nineteenth century

D) in the second half of the eighteenth century

AND) in the first half of the eighteenth century

Request
Which of the following works was written in the twentieth century?
No. 78
TO) The old man and the sea

B) Hamlet
C) Don Quixote of La Mancha
D) The Picture of Dorian Gray
AND) Germinal

Request
Which of the following novels was written in the 19th century?
No. 79
TO) The Picture of Dorian Gray
B) Of Mice and Men
C) The little prince
D) 1984
AND) The plague

Request
Which genre is typical of the Victorian age?
No. 80
TO) The serialized novel
B) The romance novel
C) The science fiction novel
D) The short novel with an allegorical theme
AND) The short story

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Request
Which of the following authors was one of the greatest exponents of Naturalism?
No. 81
TO) Emile Zola
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Guy de Maupassant
D) Edgar Allan Poe
AND) Victor Hugo

Request Henrik Ibsen, considered among the founders of modern dramatic theatre,
No. 82 was of origins:
TO) Norwegians
B) Germans
C) English
D) Swedes
AND) Danes

Request The "Lyrical Ballads" of 1798 conventionally mark the beginning of

No. 83 Romanticism in English literature. Who are their authors?
TO) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) George Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley
C) Mary Shelley and Jane Austen
D) Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe
AND) John Keats and William Blake

Request
What is the name of the devil in Goethe's "Faust"?
No. 84
TO) Mephistopheles

B) Lucifer
C) Behemoth
D) Woland
AND) Wagner

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Request Which of the following writers created the literary character Sherlock
No. 85 Holmes at the end of the 19th century?
TO) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Thomas de Quincey
D) Oscar Wilde
AND) Robert Louis Stevenson

Request
One of the following novels was written by Thomas Mann: which one?
No. 86
TO) The Buddenbrooks

B) The man without qualities

C) Nothing new on the Western Front
D) The glass bead game
AND) The process

Request
Which of the following is NOT a work by Thomas Mann?
No. 87
TO) The man without qualities
B) Death in Venice
C) The enchanted mountain
D) Tonio Kröger
AND) The Buddenbrooks

Request
Leopold Bloom is the protagonist of one of the following works: which one?
No. 88
TO) "Ulysses" by James Joyce
B) "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
C) "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde
D) "Happy Days" by Samuel Beckett
AND) "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

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Request
Which of the following works was NOT written by Charles Dickens?
No. 89
TO) Peter Pan
B) Oliver Twist
C) Great Expectations
D) Nicholas Nickleby
AND) The Pickwick Papers

Request
"Sentimental Education" is a novel by:
No. 90
TO) Gustave Flaubert
B) George Eliot
C) Georges Sand
D) Honoré de Balzac
AND) Simone de Beauvoir

Request
"La Certosa di Parma" is a novel by:
No. 91
TO) Stendhal
B) Gustave Flaubert
C) Ippolito Nievo
D) Ugo Foscolo
AND) Emilio Praga

Request
In which period is the novel "The House on the Hill" set?
No. 92
TO) During World War II
B) During the First World War
C) At the end of the 1940s
D) In the 1920s
AND) During the Risorgimento

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Request
Which of the following works is NOT set during the Risorgimento?
No. 93
TO) The day of the owl
B) The Leopard
C) The viceroys

D) Small ancient world

AND) Sense

Request
What is the nickname of the house where the Malavoglias live in Aci Trezza?
No. 94
TO) Nespolo House
B) Providence
C) House of the Trestle
D) Wooden Bell
AND) Il Leccio

Request In "Orlando Furioso", Astolfo, having come into possession of the hippogriff,
No. 95 recovers Orlando's lost sanity:
TO) on the Moon
B) in Africa
C) to Hell
D) in Jerusalem
AND) on the battlefield

Request The novel "Fontamara" by Ignazio Silone is set in the homonymous area
No. 96 imaginary country, which would be found in:
TO) Abruzzo
B) Calabria
C) Puglia
D) Campania
AND) Lazio

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Which Italian novel was first published in German in Switzerland,

Request
in 1933 and only in 1945 in Italian, being a book of denunciation of
No. 97
fascist regime?
TO) "Fontamara" by Ignazio Silone
B) "Christ Stopped at Eboli" by Carlo Levi
C) "Reeds in the wind" by Grazia Deledda
D) "Arturo's Island" by Elsa Morante
AND) "The house on the hill" by Cesare Pavese

"The officer Giovanni Drogo is sent to the Bastiani fortress, a military

garrison on the border with an unexplored desert in which a mysterious
population. The novel is pervaded by feelings of suspension and
Request waiting: Drogo wastes his existence waiting in vain for the attack
No. 98 of the mysterious population, in the hope, then disappointed, of obtaining the
glory in war."
This passage summarizes the plot of a famous novel from
Twentieth century: which one?

TO) "The Desert of the Tartars" by Dino Buzzati

B) "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino
C) "The moonstone" by Tommaso Landolfi
D) "The Castle" by Franz Kafka
AND) "Double Dream" by Arthur Schnitzler

Request
"The city of the sun" by Tommaso Campanella:
No. 99
TO) outlines the utopia of an ideal society
B) supports the truth of the heliocentric theory
C) it is a study in astrology
D) it is a treatise on the essence of principality
AND) supports the validity of the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian system

In which of the following works by Italo Calvino is the chaotic and contradictory
Request
life of the protagonist addressed, through the naive eyes of the protagonist?
No. 100
industrialized city that has forgotten what nature is?
TO) Marcovaldo
B) The Non-Existent Knight
C) You with Zero
D) The spider's nest trail
AND) The Halved Viscount

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Request
Where is Umberto Eco's novel "The Name of the Rose" set?
No. 101
TO) In a Benedictine monastery in northern Italy
B) At Notre-Dame in Paris
C) In the Louvre Museum in Paris
D) In a Cistercian abbey in southern Italy
AND) In the Vatican museums

Request What is the setting of the novel "Ragazzi di vita" by Pier Paolo
No. 102 Pasolini?
TO) The suburbs and peripheral neighborhoods of Rome

B) The Friulian countryside

C) The high-class neighborhoods of Turin

D) Bologna station
AND) The bad neighborhoods of Naples

Request
Which of the following authors was also a professional chemist?
No. 103
TO) Primo Levi
B) Italo Calvino
C) Carlo Emilio Gadda
D) Carlo Cassola
AND) Cesare Pavese

Request In the "Divine Comedy" how many days does Dante's journey last
No. 104 otherworldly world?
TO) 7 days
B) 33 days
C) 1 year
D) 14 days
AND) 3 months

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Request "It's like autumn leaves on the trees." Who is the author of these
No. 105 verses?
TO) Giuseppe Ungaretti
B) Umberto Saba
C) Eugenio Montale
D) Salvatore Quasimodo
AND) Primo Levi

Request
Who is the author of "Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City"?
No. 106
TO) Italo Calvino
B) Cesare Pavese
C) Pier Paolo Pasolini
D) Beppe Fenoglio
AND) Giorgio Bassani

Request Bradamante, Ruggiero and Rodomonte are all three characters

No. 107 of the work:
TO) Orlando Furioso
B) The Baron in the Trees
C) The viscount halved
D) The Decameron
AND) The Divine Comedy

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following passage?

Nearly half of the world's people speak an Indo-European language. In fact,
for a couple of centuries researchers have maintained that Italian and other
Romance languages, such as French and Spanish, are those
Germanic (English, German and Dutch) and Slavic languages such as Russian,
are relatives of Hindustani and Sanskrit (spoken in Pakistan and India) as well as
Kurdish and Persian, having originated from a common ancestor language,
called proto- Indo-European. According to the most accredited reconstruction so
far, the Proto-Indo-European language was spoken around 6,000
Request
years ago near the Black Sea, between Russia and Ukraine, by a population of
No. 108
shepherds who, thanks to the horse, spread several times to the West and the East,
from the Iberian peninsula to India, supplanting local customs and languages of
Paleolithic origin. The Scientific American magazine has now returned to the
question, strengthening a second hypothesis which sees the origin of the Indo-
European languages in Anatolia, in present-day Turkey, not by shepherds, but
of farmers. A new method, based on computational linguistic
investigation, using increasingly rigorous algorithms and imitating
phylogenetic reconstruction, is relating the various languages as
in an increasingly precise family tree.
According to one theory, the spread of Proto-Indo-European owes something to the
TO)
horse
Today, the idea that there is a basic linguistic unity between languages such as Italian,
B) French and Spanish on the one hand and Hindustani and Sanskrit on the other has been
abandoned.
Mathematics is proving to be a valid tool for examining some
C)
scientific theories
It is false that about 6,000 years ago between Russia and Ukraine there were a people
D)
who spoke pre-Indo-European
Until a couple of centuries ago, researchers did not know the affinity that
AND)
links Italian to French

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following

passage? Culture is now not only fragmented into separate parts, but also
broken into two blocks. The great disjunction between humanistic and
scientific culture, which emerged in the nineteenth century and worsened in
twentieth century, causes serious consequences for both. Humanistic
culture is a generic culture, which through philosophy, the
wise, the novel nourishes general intelligence, addresses fundamental
human questions, stimulates reflection on knowledge and encourages the
Request
personal integration of knowledge. Scientific culture, of a completely different
No. 109
nature, separates the fields of knowledge; arouses extraordinary
discoveries, brilliant theories, but not a reflection on human destiny and
the becoming of science itself. Humanistic culture tends to become like a
private grain mill made up of scientific acquisitions on the world and on
life, which should fuel the big questions; scientific culture, deprived of
reflexivity on general and global problems, becomes incapable of thinking
about itself and the social and human problems that
poses.
Scientific culture poses big problems but is not able to reflect on
TO)
them
Humanistic culture and scientific culture must be able to
B)
exchange their objects
It is time for humanistic culture and scientific culture to reunite their objects
C)
to return to the situation of the eighteenth century
D) Scientific culture does not appear capable of fueling intelligence
Scientific culture, which by its nature tends to separate fields of
AND) knowledge, caused a rift with humanistic culture during the
nineteenth century

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following

passage? The first reason not to fear AI is that it is useful. Many of the AI
applications, in fact, do not compete with us, because they concern something
that we would not be able to do, or that would require us
an exaggerated time. Like comparing an x-ray with countless
others to identify in a fraction of a second a point in the image
Request
that can strengthen a specialist's suspicion. Or simulate the
No. 110
three-dimensional coiling of a protein to predict whether
it would be a good drug once introduced into the human body. The
second reason not to fear it is that it is not a threat but a support for
creativity: as it is designed, in fact, AI cannot violate the rules
on which it is based, while creativity is given precisely by the ability to
break the mold. In fact, many artists are already using it.
TO) Artificial intelligence can have applications in the artistic field
Artificial intelligence appears as a threat only to those who have not
B)
understood that it is not a threat
C) Artificial intelligence only knows how to do things that humans cannot do
There is nothing that artificial intelligence does that humans
D)
cannot do; however AI saves time
Artists using AI violate the fundamental rule of art, which
AND)
is to break the mold

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? All

the definitions of the religious phenomenon given to date have a
common trait: each contrasts, in its own way, the SACRED and life
religious to the PROFANE and to secular life. The difficulties begin when
one wants to delimit the sphere of the notion of 'sacred'. Difficulty of
theoretical nature, but also practical, because before attempting a
Request definition of the religious phenomenon, we need to know which way to go
No. 111 search for religious FACTS, and, above all, which are, among these facts, those
that can be observed 'in their pure state', that is, which are 'simple' and as close as
possible to their origin. Similar facts, unfortunately, are nowhere at our disposal:
neither in the societies whose history we can follow, nor among the 'primitives',
the least civilized. We find ourselves almost everywhere
when faced with complex religious phenomena, which presuppose a long
historical evolution.
If the study of the religious phenomenon is based on the distinction
TO) between sacred and profane, the problem of identifying the sacred and
identifying religious facts arises.
Sacred and profane are the two concepts that underlie religious facts. The
B) latter, however, do not exist in a pure state, so what we can grasp is an
evolution, without grasping the starting point
Today, simple religious facts no longer exist. They have been replaced by
C) complex phenomena. This is the reason why it is impossible to attempt a
definition of the religious phenomenon
The difficulties encountered by those who want to define the religious phenomenon arise
D) from the fact that simple religious facts can no longer be observed, due to the historical
evolution that has affected and transformed them
It is by investigating religious facts that it will be possible to arrive at a satisfactory
AND) definition of the religious phenomenon and therefore the distinction between sacred and
profane

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage?

Broken rackets, shouting, swearing, insults and threats to leave the court.
When a ball called outside or inside the court can mean the difference
between victory or defeat, sometimes tennis players protest to the chair
umpire by giving the worst of themselves. But very soon what made some
players like John McEnroe true legends of hysterics (as well as of sublime
Request tennis) will become a memory and will send the line judges into retirement.
No. 112 The ATP, the association representing the professionals of
men's tennis, announced that from 2025 Electronic Line Calling Live
technology will be introduced in all its tournaments: a system of 40 very
high-speed HD cameras, 10 of which with a laser system that records the
ball's movements at 2,500 frames per second and, thanks to software, it is
able to establish with absolute precision whether even a
only a small piece of it has touched the line or not.
A very sophisticated technology is about to be introduced in men's tennis, which
TO)
will determine the movement of the ball with absolute certainty
The introduction of sophisticated technology, which will occur in men's
B)
tennis from 2025, will deprive this sport of its truest charm
2025 will represent an important year, at least for men's tennis: Electronic Line
C) Calling Live technology will be introduced which, by combining cameras and
lasers, will record the players' movements with absolute certainty
Electronic Line Calling Live technology will retire tennis players like
D)
John McEnroe
Electronic Line Calling Live technology is about to be introduced, i.e. a
AND) system of 40 very high-speed HD cameras. Ten will be equipped with a
laser system capable of recording 2,500 frames per second

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? Canadian

scientists carried out an experiment by subjecting members of the Mbenzélé
Pygmy tribe to listen to music. This tribe, which has a rich culture and musical
tradition, lives in the Congo rainforest, without electricity, and without access
to radio and television, and therefore is never
been exposed to music other than their own. The researchers had
forty of them and forty Canadians, citizens of Montreal, who in turn
Request had never had the opportunity to hear the music of the
No. 113 Pygmies, a series of songs from the two musical cultures. The result
was that listeners in the two groups defined i very differently
songs as to the emotions of sadness or happiness they evoked. In
particular, while Canadian listeners classified the music they listened
to, both Western and Pygmy music, based on the entire
range of emotions, for the Pygmies almost all the songs were
"pleasant" and evocative of positive feelings. And also the parameters
physiological have demonstrated the same diversity.
An experiment conducted on a group of Pygmies on one side and a group of Canadians on the
TO)
other seems to show that music does not arouse the same emotions in everyone
An experiment conducted on Mbenzélé Pygmies and Canadians shows a
diversity of music appreciation. While the latter were able to correctly
B)
categorize the different songs based on the emotions they aroused, the
former made a much more uniform judgment
Canadian scientists have subjected the Mbenzélé Pygmies, a tribe from the
Congo rainforest who do not know electricity, radio or television and who
C)
have therefore never had the opportunity to listen to music other than their
own, to a musical experiment
When they listen to the music of another people, Westerners tend to classify it
D) based on their own parameters, while the Pygmies appear more monotonous,
almost always judging it in positive terms
Exchanging music between two cultures causes interesting results. The
Mbenzélé Pygmies proved to be open to foreign music and appreciated it
AND)
almost entirely, while the Canadians filtered other people's music according to
their own cultural heritage

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following

passage? I, like many others, see chess as a precise model of life, with its
everyday battles and its ups and downs. At the chessboard we get the
ability to control events. We can design plans and try to
Request take them to their logical conclusion, which is what we do every time
No. 114 day. You cannot be successful in any initiative and in any circumstance if
you do not encourage within yourself tenacity, industriousness and the
ability to objectively evaluate your possibilities. You have to be
capable of setting realistic goals and fighting to achieve them
logical, energetic and decisive manner.
TO) The game of chess contains useful lessons for life
B) Chess helps develop skills such as tenacity
C) Those who play chess can control events
Anyone who plays chess can be successful in every endeavor, and not just on the
D)
board
Those who do not play chess do not develop the ability to objectively evaluate
AND)
their possibilities

Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? In recent

years, very sensitive techniques have been developed to recognize
whether a given substance is capable of producing mutations
genetics. This has also proven to be of considerable importance in
Request
the prevention of diseases, because these "mutagenesis tests" can be
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applied to practically all chemical substances in the environment,
allowing to discriminate those endowed with this ability, which can be
sometimes considered the first step towards a transformation in meaning
carcinogen of living cells.
Mutagenesis tests have also gained importance for medical purposes, since
TO) they allow the identification of those substances that could trigger
carcinogenic transformations of living cells
Cells that can undergo carcinogenic transformations can now be
B)
identified thanks to mutagenesis tests
Mutagenesis tests, applied to foods, have proven to be very valuable
C) because they can identify those substances that can induce carcinogenic
mutations in cells
Genetic mutations of substances can be detected today thanks to
D) mutagenesis tests. This has an important medical impact in the fight
against cancer
Mutagenesis tests developed in recent years make it possible to identify
AND) cells destined to transform into carcinogens as a result of substances that
produce genetic mutations

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage? The

historiography of the Great War has been conditioned for years by an
essentially political problem, that of the search for responsibility for the
outbreak of the conflict. But, despite all the opposing efforts, the
Request attempt to identify the culprit in the opposing camp did not lead to
No. 116 fully convincing and conclusive results. Precisely this historiographical
approach, indeed, itself appears to reveal the deepest cause that had
led to the conflict: mutual distrust, the fear of each country that its
existence and its future were threatened by the
others, the anxiety of survival.
The historiographical debate on the responsibility for the outbreak of the great war has
TO) never reached any real conclusions, which if anything demonstrates that the cause was
rather the climate of fear and suspicion between nations
Entrusting a historiographical debate to political preconceptions means setting
B) yourself up for failure. And in fact it has not yet been possible to establish who is
responsible for the outbreak of the great war
Even today we do not know who should be attributed responsibility for the outbreak
C) of the great war. The reason lies in the fact that the problem is approached from a
political rather than historiographical point of view
Mutual distrust, anxiety for survival and fear for one's own existence
determined the political problem of attributing responsibility for the
D)
outbreak of the great war and the consequent historiographical difficulties
in explaining it
The climate of mutual distrust between countries and of fear that led to the
AND) outbreak of the great war continued in the subsequent historiographical debate and
still today prevents us from attributing responsibility for the outbreak.

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage?

The history of chess is above all a history of ideas. Attempts to
formulate scientific laws with general validity were very few before
19th century: only some truths, embryonic fragments of a chess system,
were intuited in previous centuries, the result of passionate research and
the results of the games played. André D. Philidor was the first
Request
to grasp an aspect (the structures of the pawns and their importance in the
No. 117
development of the game) of the general theory which, in our times, is part
of the baggage of a mediocre player. The path of science passes
always through the chaotic events of empiricism and
approximation, and - what is important - it is not said that certain laws
are forever acquired in the cultural heritage of humanity: there
they are always opponents willing to deny the evidence of the facts.
Only in the 19th century did we move from sporadic observations to the
TO)
formulation of a systematic of chess thanks to André D. Philidor
André Philidor was the author of a transformation of the game of chess,
B) introducing pawn structures. And although today such ideas appear to be typical of
mediocre players, their historical importance must be recognized
Science paves its way between empirical experimentation, approximation and
C)
the unreasonable opposition of some. It's not an easy game
Chess is to ideas what empirical experimentation is to science. There is no
doubt that the approximation and unreasonable opposition of some are
D)
an obstacle, but, as Philidor showed, systematization is possible and the
fruits can be enjoyed by all
Before the 19th century, chess players were passionate and brilliant, but
AND) Philidor's research, making its fruits available to all in the form of universal
laws, produced generations of mediocre chess players

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following passage?

The scant information, all at least sixty years after the death of Andrea del
Castagno, which Billi and the Anonymous Gaddiano provided to Vasari as a
historical basis for the reconstruction of the character in the Lives, demonstrates a
tone of horror and open condemnation for the story of
Request
an artist who had earned the nickname Andreino degli Impiccati
No. 118
from his gloomy debut, and on his deathbed had confessed to having
killed Domenico Veneziano "with a club on the head out of envy".
Enough to absorb Vasari's interest and to suggest it to him
the invention of a strong character that from the final confession of the crime
he drew the darkest colors for an interpretation.
TO) Vasari developed an interpretation of the personality of Andrea del Castagno
It is not certain that Vasari knew that Andrea del Castagno had killed
B)
Domenico Veneziano
C) Andrea del Castagno was a serial killer
D) The information we have about Andrea del Castagno is the result of invention
AND) Billi and Anonymous Gaddiano met

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Which alternative is consistent with the meaning of the following passage?

Isoprene is a gas used in the rubber industry and in the synthesis of
some vitamins but its role in the natural environment is not well known;
however, it is known that it is released by some plants and algae. Now yes
it is seen that its presence can determine the cooling or warming
of our planet. How? In some cases it can react with some substances
present in the atmosphere producing ozone, while in other cases it
determines the retention of methane. Both ozone and
methane are among the gases considered responsible for the greenhouse
Request
effect and therefore can accentuate global warming. Sometimes isoprene
No. 119
can form aerosols which can partially shield the sun's rays,
resulting in a slight cooling. Now Dr. McGenity of the University of
Essex has discovered that some bacteria present in coastal areas are
capable of degrading isoprene before it can reach the higher layers of
the atmosphere. It also seems that these microorganisms are capable
of degrading alkanes, hydrocarbons which constitute a significant
fraction of crude oil. This makes you think of
their use as decomposer organisms later
to marine oil pollution.
Isoprene is capable, under certain circumstances, of producing ozone,
TO)
which affects global warming
The industry uses a gas it is not yet familiar with: isoprene. Yet it has always
B)
been produced by plants and algae. It could hold many surprises for us
Isoprene could be used to combat marine oil pollution
C)
The role of isoprene in combating marine pollution is ambiguous. On the
D)
one hand, it increases global warming and on the other it reduces it
If, as it seems, some bacteria existing in coastal areas are able to
AND) degrade isoprene before it reaches the atmosphere, they will
certainly help us in the fight against oil pollution

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following

passage? In December 2023, for the first time as long as we know
this animal, a largemouth shark specimen has been reported in
East Africa. Unfortunately it was not a live animal but a
a corpse, yet the "sighting" is important because it is a
particularly rare event: since we discovered this species in
1976, we have observed it less than 300 times, most of them
following the beaching of a body. On The Conversation, Rhodes
University marine biologist Rhett Bennett explains in detail
the situation of this curious species of shark. The big mouth shark,
Request
the only representative of the Megachasma genus, it is a large shark
No. 120
size (it can reach six meters in length), but its most obvious
characteristic is the one suggested by its name: it has a
disproportionately large mouth, which makes it resemble a sort of
enormous tadpole. Despite its size, the jaws are not predatory: the
largemouth is a shark that feeds exclusively on plankton, as they do
only two other sharks, the whale one and the basking one. As mentioned, we
have known of its existence for less than fifty years, when a specimen yes
entangled in the anchor of a US Navy ship and
was brought on board. Since then, fewer than 300 have been registered
official sightings.
Only known for about 50 years and little reported, the large mouth
TO) shark was also spotted in East Africa for the first time in 2023. This
animal feeds on plankton
The first known largemouth shark was sighted in 1976, when it became
entangled in the anchor of a US warship, which took it aboard. Since then,
B)
around 300 more sightings of live specimens have been recorded

With its six meters of length and the disproportionate mouth to which it owes its
name, the bigmouth shark could scare you. But in reality it is not a predator and, like
C)
the whale shark and the basking shark, it feeds only on plankton

Sightings of largemouth sharks are rare and unfortunately almost

exclusively concern dead specimens. So the fact that one was caught by
D)
a military ship in East Africa, where it had never been reported so far, is
a sensation.
A plankton eater like other giants of the sea and the last representative of the
Megachasma genus, the large mouth shark is demonstrating a good expansion
AND)
capacity, from America to East Africa, where it has recently been reported

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Which alternative correctly summarizes the following passage?

Among the "jobs" that could disappear in the coming years, supplanted by
technology and robots, there is that of a guide dog for the blind. A team of
researchers from the University of Berkeley recently put a
point a robot dog capable of moving both outdoors and indoors, helping
the blind and people with severe vision problems to avoid obstacles and
urban traps such as potholes, steps, subway tracks. Equipped with GPS for
navigation, laser and optical sensors, the robot is able to keep both the
road and the person under control at the same time
Request
to drive, accompanying it safely around any type of obstacle.
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Unlike guide dogs, the robot does not need long hours
expensive training, can receive software updates comfortably
remotely and is able to accompany his human from one point of the
city to another thanks to the satellite navigation system.
However, Robodog is not yet ready for the market: research and
technological developments will still be needed to make it as reliable and
efficient as a real dog. The only gap, which will be difficult to fill, is that the
same friendly relationship does not develop between man and robot dog.
and trust that is created, however, between a blind person and his furry guide.
In the future, a robot could replace the guide dog that accompanies
TO) the blind in their daily lives. Safe and efficient, but perhaps not as nice

Scholars at the University of Berkeley have developed a robot dog equipped with
sensors, lasers and GPS which now replaces the real dog in assisting the blind.
B)
However, the fact remains that the relationship that man establishes with a
machine is not the one he establishes with an animal.
The advantages of a robot compared to an animal are evident and in fact the
C) robot dog recently developed, thanks to its satellite navigation system, is
about to replace the real dog
Software updates, GPS and sensors make a robot a better guide than a
D) real dog. Blind people will be able to save long and expensive training,
without losing services and safety
The robot dog is certainly super efficient thanks to electronics, but it doesn't
AND) seem like it will be able to replace the animal dog in assisting the blind

Request Andrea Vesàlio, Italianized name of Andreas van Wesel, is considered the
No. 122 founder:
TO) of modern anatomy
B) of modern chemistry
C) of modern physics
D) of modern mathematics
AND) of the modern economy

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Request John Napier, known in Italian as Giovanni Nepero, is famous for his
No. 123 studies:

TO) on logarithms
B) on the waves

C) on blood circulation
D) on astronomy
AND) on heredity

Request
Johann Friedrich Carl Gauss was above all:
No. 124
TO) a mathematician
B) a pharmacist
C) a doctor
D) a chemist
AND) a botanist

Request
Alessandro Volta lived:
No. 125
TO) between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
B) between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
C) between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
D) between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
AND) between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Request
Which alternative correctly matches inventor and invention?
No. 126
Alessandro Volta - pile; Antonio Meucci - telephone; Guglielmo Marconi -
TO)
radiotelegraph
Alessandro Volta - pile; Antonio Meucci - radiotelegraph; Guglielmo Marconi
B)
- telephone
Alessandro Volta - telephone; Antonio Meucci - radiotelegraph; Guglielmo
C)
Marconi - pile
Alessandro Volta - radiotelegraph; Antonio Meucci - telephone; Guglielmo
D)
Marconi - stack
Alessandro Volta - radiotelegrapher; Antonio Meucci - stack; Guglielmo Marconi
AND)
- telephone

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Request
The famous doctor and Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer was of origin:
No. 127
TO) Franco-German
B) Franco-Belgian
C) Austrian
D) Polish
AND) Austro-Hungarian

Request
Edwin Powell Hubble was:
No. 128
TO) an astronomer
B) a mathematician
C) a doctor
D) a chemist
AND) an astronaut

Request
The formula E = mc2expresses:
No. 129
TO) mass-energy equivalence
B) the standard deviation
C) acceleration
D) the uncertainty principle
AND) the second law of thermodynamics

Request
The formula E = mc2was stated by:
No. 130
TO) Albert Einstein
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Isaac Newton
D) James Dewey Watson
AND) Marie Curie

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Request
The Hubble Telescope is located:
No. 131
TO) in orbit
B) in Pasadena
C) in Trieste
D) in Monte Palomar
AND) in Tipperary

Request
The city that is considered the homeland of Greek philosophy is:
No. 132
TO) Miletus
B) Athens
C) Metaponto
D) Stalls
AND) Mycenae

Request
The Greek philosopher Thales lived:
No. 133
TO) between the seventh and sixth centuries BC

B) between eighth and seventh century BC

C) in the fourth century BC

D) in the fifth century BC
AND) between tenth and ninth centuries BC

Request
The philosopher Avicenna was of origin:
No. 134
TO) shutter
B) Arab
C) Yemeni
D) Greek
AND) Armenian

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Request
Which of the following philosophers is considered an existentialist?
No. 135
TO) Martin Heidegger
B) Arthur Schopenhauer
C) Bertrand Russell
D) Ludwig Wittgenstein
AND) Thomas Hobbes

Request Which of the following writers is considered to be associated with thinking

No. 136 existentialist?
TO) Albert Camus
B) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
C) Mikhail Bakunin
D) Oscar Wilde
AND) The Marquis de Sade

Request
The proponent of the scientific method based on experience was:
No. 137
TO) Francis Bacon
B) Thomas More
C) Tommaso Campanella
D) Marsilio Ficino
AND) Pico della Mirandola

Request The work "The origin of the family, private property and the state" was
No. 138 written by:
TO) Friedrich Engels
B) Friedrich Nietzsche
C) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
D) Martin Heidegger
AND) Karl Jaspers

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Request
Which of the following works was written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
No. 139
TO) The social contract
B) The capital
C) What is metaphysics?
D) Candide or optimism
AND) Human, too human

Request
"The Gay Science" is a work by:
No. 140
TO) Friedrich Nietzsche
B) Thomas Hobbes
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Martin Heidegger
AND) Hannah Arendt

Request
Which of the following cities was NOT one of the Maritime Republics?
No. 141
TO) Syracuse
B) Amalfi
C) Genoa
D) Pisa
AND) Venice

Request Which of the following rulers possessed such vast domains that over them "not
No. 142 did the sun ever set"?
TO) Charles V of Habsburg
B) Ferdinand II of Aragon
C) Louis XIV of Bourbon
D) Henry VIII of England
AND) Francis I of France

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Which of the following alternatives indicates the document with which William III
Request
in 1689 he accepted the limitation of the monarchy in favor of Parliament,
No. 143
turning England into a parliamentary monarchy?
TO) Bill of Rights
B) Magna Carta libertatum
C) Act of Union
D) Roman Catholic Relief Act
AND) Act of Supremacy

Request During which of the following periods of English history did the
No. 144 American Revolutionary War?
TO) Georgian age
B) Elizabethan era
C) English Civil War
D) Victorian era
AND) Edwardian period

Request
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in:
No. 145
TO) Ajaccio
B) Paris
C) Genoa
D) Marseille
AND) Brussels

Request Which of the following battles was NOT fought during the wars
No. 146 Napoleonic?
TO) Caporetto
B) Marengo
C) Waterloo
D) Austerlitz
AND) Trafalgar

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Request In which of the following cities was Napoleon Bonaparte crowned King?
No. 147 of Italy in 1805?
TO) Milan
B) Paris
C) Naples
D) Turin
AND) Rome

Request Which of the following rulers was the founder of the Anglican Church, in
No. 148 following the schism from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century?
TO) Henry VIII
B) Edward III
C) James II
D) George I
AND) Richard Plantagenet

Which of the following historical figures began the Protestant

Request
Reformation by affixing his "95" to the church door of Wittenberg
No. 149
thesis" in 1517?
TO) Martin Luther
B) Huldrych Zwingli
C) Erasmus of Rotterdam
D) John Calvin
AND) Thomas Müntzer

Request
Which of the following rulers is also known as the Sun King?
No. 150
TO) Louis XIV
B) Philip IV
C) Charles V
D) Ferdinand V
AND) Henry VIII

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Request
Which of the following sovereigns was the last King of Italy in 1946?
No. 151
TO) Umberto II
B) Victor Emmanuel II
C) Emanuele Filiberto
D) Charles Emmanuel III
AND) Victor Emmanuel III

Which of the following politicians was kidnapped and killed in 1924 by a group of
Request
squadristi after having denounced the violence in a speech to the Chamber
No. 152
of fascism?
TO) Giacomo Matteotti
B) Giovanni Minzoni
C) Giovanni Amendola
D) Giuseppe Di Vagno
AND) Piero Gobetti

Request Which of the following alternatives reports the given events in the correct order
No. 153 chronological?
March on Rome - "very fascist" laws - Italy's intervention in the Second
TO) World War - landing in Sicily - the Grand Council of Fascism votes on the
agenda Grandi - arrest of Mussolini
The Grand Council of Fascism votes on the agenda Grandi - march on
B) Rome - Italy's intervention in the Second World War - "very fascist" laws -
arrest of Mussolini - landing in Sicily
March on Rome - Italy's intervention in the Second World War - "very
C) fascist" laws - the Grand Council of Fascism votes on the agenda Grandi -
arrest of Mussolini - landing in Sicily
"Most fascist" laws - march on Rome - Italy's intervention in the Second
D) World War - the Grand Council of Fascism votes on the agenda Grandi -
arrest of Mussolini - landing in Sicily
"Most fascist" laws - march on Rome - Italy's intervention in the Second
AND) World War - the Grand Council of Fascism votes on the agenda Grandi -
landing in Sicily - arrest of Mussolini

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Request Which of the following rulers was killed by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci the
No. 154 July 29, 1900?
TO) King Umberto I
B) Emperor Franz Joseph I
C) King Victor Emmanuel II
D) King Umberto II
AND) Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Request Which of the following political figures became the first president of
No. 155 Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic in July 1946?
TO) Alcide De Gasperi
B) Ferruccio Parri
C) Giovanni Giolitti
D) Giuseppe Pella
AND) Enrico De Nicola

Request Which of the following battles was NOT fought during the second
No. 156 world war?
TO) Vittorio Veneto
B) Stalingrad
C) Cassino
D) Western Alps
AND) El Alamein

Request Which of the following alternatives indicates the military alliance entered into in
No. 157 May 1939 between Germany and Italy?
TO) Pact of Steel
B) Triple Entente
C) Dual Alliance
D) Warsaw Pact
AND) Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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Request Which of the following states is NOT a signatory to the Treaty of Rome
No. 158 of 1957, which established the EEC?
TO) Spain
B) France
C) Belgium
D) Italy
AND) Luxembourg

Which of the following alternatives correctly lists the names of the three cities
Request
Italian cities which, as part of the Unification of Italy, became capitals of the Kingdom
No. 159
of Italy?
TO) Turin - Florence - Rome
B) Turin - Milan - Venice
C) Rome - Florence - Naples
D) Turin - Rome - Naples
AND) Rome - Turin - Milan

Request Which of the following political figures became the first president of
No. 160 Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Italy?
TO) Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
B) Giuseppe Garibaldi
C) Bettino Ricasoli
D) Massimo d'Azeglio
AND) Giuseppe Mazzini

Request In which of the following historical contexts did the Breccia episode occur?
No. 161 Porta Pia?
TO) Risorgimento
B) Resistence
C) First World War
D) First post-war period
AND) Second World War

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Request Which of the following sovereigns was proclaimed the first King of Italy in March
No. 162 1861?
TO) Victor Emmanuel II
B) Umberto I
C) Carlo Alberto
D) Victor Emmanuel I
AND) Umberto II

Request
Man first set foot on the Moon in:
No. 163
TO) 1969
B) 1959
C) 1949
D) 1979
AND) 1929

Request
In which of the following historical contexts does the Vietnam War take place?
No. 164
TO) Cold War
B) First World War
C) Restoration
D) Risorgimento
AND) Second World War

Request Which of the following alternatives about the novel "Hard Times" by Charles
No. 165 Is Dickens FALSE?
TO) The protagonist is the orphan Pip
B) It was published in installments in a magazine
C) It is set in Coketown, a fictional town
D) It can be considered a novel of social criticism
The evils of industrial society and a closeness to the lower middle classes
AND)
emerge

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Request
William Shakespeare lived and worked:
No. 166
TO) between the 16th and 17th centuries
B) between the 17th and 18th centuries
C) in the 18th century
D) in the 19th century
AND) in the 15th century

Request Goethe's work "The Sorrows of Young Werther" belongs to the genre
No. 167 of:
TO) epistolary novel
B) historical novel
C) feuilleton
D) poem
AND) social novel

Request Which of the following writers is commonly considered the initiator of the
No. 168 Social novel?
TO) Charles Dickens
B) Laurence Sterne
C) Henry Fielding
D) Daniel Defoe
AND) William Thackeray

Request Identify the INCORRECT pairing between the work and the city of
No. 169 setting.
TO) Romeo and Juliet - Venice
B) The Betrothed - Milan
C) Pleasure - Rome
D) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - London
AND) Father Goriot - Paris

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Request
Which of the following is NOT an epistolary novel?
No. 170
TO) The Scarlet Letter
B) Dracula
C) The Sorrows of Young Werther
D) Pamela, or virtue rewarded
AND) The last letters of Jacopo Ortis

Request Which of the following authors is one of the major representatives of the
No. 171 French naturalism?
TO) Emile Zola
B) Victor Hugo
C) Albert Camus
D) Jules Verne
AND) Jean-Paul Sartre

Request Which of the following authors was NOT an exponent of Decadentism

No. 172 French?
TO) Gustave Flaubert
B) Paul Verlaine
C) Stéphane Mallarmé
D) Arthur Rimbaud
AND) Tristan Corbière

Request Which of the following British poets was NOT an exponent of the
No. 173 Romance?
TO) John Milton
B) William Blake
C) Lord George Gordon Byron
D) Percy Bisshe Shelley
AND) John Keats

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Request
Who is the author of "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"?
No. 174
TO) Robert Louis Stevenson
B) Mary Shelley
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Daniel Defoe
AND) Arthur Conan Doyle

Request Rodiòn Romànovič Raskòl'nikov is the protagonist of which famous

No. 175 Russian novel?
TO) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
C) "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
D) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
AND) "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol

Request The Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle is considered among the initiators
No. 176 like this:
TO) yellow
B) dystopian
C) humorous
D) cyberpunk
AND) apocalyptic

Request
"The Threepenny Opera" was written by:
No. 177
TO) Bertolt Brecht
B) William Shakespeare
C) Henrik Ibsen
D) George Bernard Shaw
AND) Luigi Pirandello

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Request
Which of the following authors does NOT belong to the Victorian age?
No. 178
TO) Jane Austen
B) George Eliot
C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
AND) Emily Bronte

Request "The Jungle Book", "Captains Courageous" and "Kim" are classics of
No. 179 children's literature written by:
TO) Rudyard Kipling
B) Joseph Conrad
C) Herman Melville
D) Mark Twain
AND) L. Frank Baum

Request
One of the following plays was NOT written by Shakespeare: which one?
No. 180
TO) Pygmalion
B) A Midsummer Night's Dream
C) Othello
D) King Lear
AND) The Storm

Request
Which of the following is NOT a character in a Shakespeare play?
No. 181
TO) Kubla Khan
B) Ophelia
C) Desdemona
D) Caliban
AND) Richard III

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Request Desdemona is the female protagonist of a Shakespeare play:

No. 182 Which?
TO) Othello
B) Hamlet
C) The Storm
D) A Midsummer Night's Dream
AND) King Lear

Request
What does the broom represent in Leopardi's poem of the same name?
No. 183
TO) Courage and extreme resistance in the face of an inevitable fate
B) The purity and aspirations of the poet's noble soul
C) Due to its prickly leaves, a meaning of defense is attributed to it
D) Unhappiness and desperation in love
AND) The regret of a life sacrificed to study and lived in deprivation

Request In the compositions of which of the following 20th century poets are we
No. 184 often found rugged Ligurian landscapes as a symbol of the human condition?
TO) Eugenio Montale
B) Umberto Saba
C) Giuseppe Ungaretti
D) Salvatore Quasimodo
AND) Alda Merini

Request Which of the following alternatives reports the correct author-author pairing?
No. 185 work?
TO) Niccolò Machiavelli - Mandragola
B) Matteo Maria Boiardo - Orlando furioso
C) Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando in Love
D) Tommaso Campanella - Dialogue on the two greatest systems of the world
AND) Galileo Galilei - The City of the Sun

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Request Which of the following poets is the author of the collection of poems "Canti di
No. 186 Castelvecchio"?
TO) Giovanni Pascoli
B) Giosuè Carducci
C) Eugenio Montale
D) Giacomo Leopardi
AND) Ugo Foscolo

Request
Identify the correct pairing between author and poem.
No. 187
TO) Giuseppe Ungaretti - Soldiers
B) Eugenio Montale - At the branches of the willows
C) Salvatore Quasimodo - To my wife
D) Umberto Saba - Lemons
AND) Pier Paolo Pasolini - The broken glass

Request
Which of the following lyrics was NOT written by Giovanni Pascoli?
No. 188
TO) In the evening

B) The nocturnal jasmine

C) 10th August

D) The lightning

AND) The mare reverses

Which of the following works represents the personal diary of notes, reflections
Request
and aphorisms that Giacomo Leopardi wrote between July and August
No. 189
1817 and December 1832?
TO) The Zibaldone
B) The Moral Operettes
C) Paralipomena of Batrachomiomachia
D) The Little Idylls
AND) The Aspasia Cycle

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Request Which of the following was the woman loved and celebrated by Petrarch in his
No. 190 compositions?
TO) Laura
B) Angelica
C) Silvia
D) Beatrice
AND) Francesca

Request
Which of the following alternatives about Luigi Pirandello is FALSE?
No. 191
TO) He only wrote plays
B) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
C) He is the author of "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
D) He is considered among the most important playwrights of the 20th century
AND) At a certain point in his life he joined fascism

Request Which of the following alternatives indicates the correct dates of birth and death
No. 192 by Dante Alighieri?
TO) 1265-1321
B) 1469-1527
C) 1230-1276
D) 1304-1374
AND) 1313-1375

Request Which of the following is Italo Calvino's first novel, published in

No. 193 1947?
TO) The spider's nest trail
B) The Baron in the Trees
C) If a traveler on a winter's night
D) The cosmicomics
AND) Palomar

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Request Which of the following alternatives on the life and work of Italo Svevo is
No. 194 FALSE?
TO) He is the author of "Il fu Mattia Pascal"
B) His name is a pseudonym
C) He also devoted himself to writing fairy tales
D) He was a friend of James Joyce when the Irish writer lived in Trieste
At the center of his works he often represents the ineptitude of
AND)
contemporary man

Request To what period does the prison experience that Silvio Pellico describes date back?
No. 195 in "My Prisons"?
TO) In the first half of the nineteenth century

B) To the Second World War

C) To the First World War
D) To the second half of the nineteenth century

AND) To the second half of the eighteenth century

Request
Which of the following alternatives about Primo Levi (1919-1987) is FALSE?
No. 196
TO) He won the Nobel Prize for Literature
B) He was an anti-fascist partisan
C) He was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp
D) He graduated in chemistry

AND) His most famous work is "If This Is a Man"

Request Which of the following alternatives about the life of Alessandro Manzoni is
No. 197 FALSE?
TO) He was the nephew, on his mother's side, of Carlo Imbonati
B) At a certain point in his life he converted to Catholicism
C) He was born and died in Milan
He also lived in Paris, where he came into contact with the circle of
D)
idéologues, a culturally lively and avant-garde environment
AND) In 1860 he was appointed senator of the Kingdom of Italy

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Which of the following authors was convicted and burned at the stake in Rome
Request
in the year 1600 for his theories, judged heretical by the court
No. 198
of the Inquisition?
TO) Giordano Bruno
B) Tommaso Campanella
C) Pietro Aretino
D) Galileo Galilei
AND) Thomas More

Request In Dante's Inferno, who has the task of ferrying the souls of the deceased
No. 199 damned beyond the river Acheron?
TO) Charon
B) Lucifer
C) Cerberus
D) Ulysses
AND) Minos

Request Who is Dante's last guide in Paradise, when he arrives in front of the
No. 200 Candida Rosa?
TO) Saint Bernard
B) Virgil
C) Hunting guide
D) Cangrande della Scala
AND) Beatrice

Request Having arrived in the second circle of "Hell", Dante meets Paolo and
No. 201 Francesca, who are damned between:
TO) the lustful
B) the greedy

C) the slothful
D) those who are violent against themselves

AND) the heretics

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Request What does the term 'Malebranche' indicate within the "Divina
No. 202 Comedy"?
It is the collective name of the guardian devils of the fifth bedlam of the
TO)
eighth circle of "Hell"
B) It is the name given to gluttons who suffer hunger and thirst in "Purgatory"
Denotes the thieves who are bitten and tormented by serpents in the seventh
C)
pit of the eighth circle of "Hell"
D) They are the traitors of the benefactors in the last circle of "Hell"
AND) Indicates the souls who have just arrived in "Purgatory"

Request What are the three fairs that hinder Dante's path at the beginning
No. 203 of Hell?
TO) The loin, the she-wolf and the lion

B) The she-wolf, the leopard and the panther

C) The loin, the lynx and the she-wolf

D) The lion, the panther and the lynx

AND) The loin, the puma and the she-wolf

Request
Who is the guardian of Dante's Purgatory?
No. 204
TO) Cato
B) Minos
C) Pontius Pilate
D) Charon
AND) Pluto

Request In "The Betrothed" who, after trying in vain to stop don

No. 205 Rodrigo, protects Renzo and Lucia and helps them escape the country?
TO) Father Christopher
B) Don Abbondio
C) The Azzeccagarbugli
D) The Unnamed
AND) The Nun of Monza

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Request
In which century is the story of "The Betrothed" set?
No. 206
TO) XVII
B) XVIII
C) XIX
D) XX
AND) XVI

Request The story of the "Betrothed" takes place in Lombardy, during the
No. 207 domination:
TO) Spanish
B) Austrian
C) English
D) French
AND) German

Request
"I Promessi Sposi" belong to the genre of:
No. 208
TO) historical novel
B) epistolary novel
C) epic novel
D) dramatic poem
AND) gothic novel

Request The "History of the Infamous Column" was published as a historical appendix to
No. 209 which famous nineteenth-century novel?
TO) "The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni
B) "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
C) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) "Mastro don Gesualdo" by Giovanni Verga
AND) "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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Indicate which of the alternatives below correctly completes the

Request
following poem by Salvatore Quasimodo: «Everyone is alone in the
No. 210
heart of the earth / pierced by a ray of the sun: / ...»
TO) and it's soon evening

B) and it is sweet to me to be shipwrecked in this sea

C) my heart is the most tormented country

D) death will come and will have your eyes
AND) there is no certainty about tomorrow

Request "Nor will I ever touch the sacred shores again..." is the incipit of which of the following
No. 211 poems?
TO) "In Zacinto" by Ugo Foscolo
B) "To Silvia" by Giacomo Leopardi
C) "Trieste" by Umberto Saba
D) "San Martino" by Giosuè Carducci
AND) "X August" by Giovanni Pascoli

Request To which of the following writers can the years of "study madness and
No. 212 very desperate", so much so as to compromise his health?
TO) Giacomo Leopardi
B) Vittorio Alfieri
C) Gabriele D'Annunzio
D) Giovanni Pascoli
AND) Dino Campana

"The little girl comes from the countryside,/At sunset,/With her bundle of grass;/
Request
and carries in her hand/A bouquet of roses and violets...". These verses
No. 213
are the incipit of which famous composition?
TO) "Village Saturday" by Giacomo Leopardi
B) "The rain in the pine forest" by Gabriele D'Annunzio
C) "To Silvia" by Giacomo Leopardi
D) "Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne" by Lorenzo De' Medici
AND) "So kind and so honest it seems" by Dante Alighieri

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The following verses are the incipit of a famous lyric. Identify the author
Request
of poetry.
No. 214
"And how could we sing/with the foreign foot above the heart"
TO) Salvatore Quasimodo
B) Giuseppe Ungaretti
C) Alessandro Manzoni
D) Ugo Foscolo
AND) Giovanni Berchet

The following verses are the incipit of a famous lyric. Identify the author
Request of poetry.
No. 215 "Perhaps because of the fatal stillness/you are the image, yes dear to me come,/o
Evening! "

TO) Ugo Foscolo

B) Giacomo Leopardi
C) Giovanni Pascoli
D) Salvatore Quasimodo
AND) Eugenio Montale

The following verses are the incipit of a famous lyric. Identify the author
Request of poetry.
No. 216 "Sunday pale and absorbed/by a scorching garden wall,/listening
among the blackthorns and the twigs/clicks of blackbirds, rustles of snakes."

TO) Eugenio Montale

B) Gabriele D'Annunzio
C) Umberto Saba
D) Salvatore Quasimodo
AND) Giuseppe Ungaretti

Request "The love that moves the sun and the other stars" is the final verse of which
No. 217 famous work?
TO) Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy".
B) The "Canzoniere" by Francesco Petrarca
C) Homer's "Odyssey".
D) The "Canticle of Creatures" by Saint Francis of Assisi
AND) Virgil's "Aeneid".

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Request "The tree you tended towards / The little hand, / The green pomegranate / Give
No. 218 beautiful vermigli flowers..." is the incipit of which of the following poems?

TO) "Ancient Cry" by Giosuè Carducci

B) "To Silvia" by Giacomo Leopardi
C) "The Barga Hour" by Giovanni Pascoli
D) "In the evening" by Ugo Foscolo
AND) "The rain in the pine forest" by Gabriele D'Annunzio

Request
Which Italian literary movement developed in the wake of Maledictismo?
No. 219
TO) Dishevelment
B) Hermeticism
C) Futurism
D) Realism
AND) Neorealism

Request
The artistic-literary movement of Scapigliatura:
No. 220
TO) opposes romantic sentimentalism to the most transgressive aspects of reality
B) aims to investigate man and reality with a scientific method
C) was born as a reaction to the aesthetic pleasure of Decadentism
D) expresses the ideals and conventions of the bourgeois class
it does not aim to describe reality, but to convey emotions and
AND)
moods through symbols

Request
In what years did the literary movement of Verismo develop in Italy?
No. 221
TO) In the last thirty years of the nineteenth century

B) In the first half of the twentieth century

C) In the last thirty years of the twentieth century
D) At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

AND) In the early nineteenth century

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Request
What type of language generally characterizes hermetic poetry?
No. 222
TO) A difficult language, sometimes enigmatic and obscure
B) An artificial and extravagant language
C) The use of dialect expressions
D) A predominantly onomatopoeic language
AND) A descriptive and linear language

Request
What is meant by "Strapaese"?
No. 223
A literary and cultural movement that developed in Italy around 1926,
TO) characterized by the patriotic spirit and the defense and valorization of the
national territory, in contiguity with fascism
A literary and cultural movement that developed in Europe around 1928, aimed at
B) defending the national values, patriotism and racial purity of the European
populations
A provincial subculture that developed as a typically fascist popular
C)
literary expression
A literary magazine promoted by fascism as the party's official cultural
D)
organ
A cultural movement born from below, in the province of Lazio, to promote
AND) and enhance traditional Italian culture in contrast with the "high" culture
inserted into the European cultural debate

Request Which of the following Italian writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
No. 224 1926?
TO) Grazia Deledda
B) Sibilla Aleramo
C) Lalla Romano
D) Elsa Morante
AND) Ada Negri

Request
Who is the author of the poem "Dei sepolcri" (1807)?
No. 225
TO) Ugo Foscolo
B) Giovanni Pascoli
C) Giacomo Leopardi
D) Giosuè Carducci
AND) Alessandro Manzoni

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Request
Who is the author of the novel "Ragazzi di vita" (1955)?
No. 226
TO) Pier Paolo Pasolini
B) Curzio Malaparte
C) Luciano Bianciardi
D) Goffredo Parise
AND) Guido Piovene

Request
Who wrote the collection "Gramsci's Ashes"?
No. 227
TO) Pier Paolo Pasolini
B) Cesare Pavese
C) Primo Levi
D) Andrea Zanzotto
AND) Attilio Bertolucci

Request
Who is the author of "Gli indifferenti" (1929)?
No. 228
TO) Alberto Moravia
B) Cesare Pavese
C) Italo Calvino
D) Gabriele D'Annunzio
AND) Carlo Emilio Gadda

Request
Who is Adelchi, protagonist of Manzoni's tragedy of the same name?
No. 229
TO) The son of the last king of the Lombards
B) The daughter of the last king of the Lombards
C) The first king of the Lombards
D) A Frankish prince
AND) A Gothic prince

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Request
The protagonist of the novel "Rosso Malpelo" by Giovanni Verga is:
No. 230
a boy of humble origins who works as a miner in a red sand
TO)
quarry
B) an army officer participating in the Quest of the Thousand
a young shepherd always lived alone in the fields after being
C)
orphaned
a boy of humble origins who, together with his family, works as a
D)
fisherman
AND) a young man forced to become a priest for reasons of family economic poverty

Which literary magazine was founded in Florence, among others, by Alberto

Request
Carocci, Eugenio Montale and Leone Ginzbug in 1926 and finished
No. 231
publishing in 1934 (with the last two issues released in 1936)?
TO) Solaria
B) Lacerba
C) The Liberal Revolution
D) The coffee

AND) Studio magazine

Request Which literary magazine was published between 1913 and 1915, giving voice to the
No. 232 futurist intellectuals?
TO) Lacerba
B) Solaria
C) Futurist Italy
D) The voice
AND) The new Order

Request
Which of the following titles was NOT attributed to Charlemagne?
No. 233
TO) King of Constantinople
B) King of the Franks
C) Holy Roman Emperor
D) Defender of Christianity
AND) King of the Lombards

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In which of the following cities were the Declaration of Independence of the United
Request
States of America (1776) and the Constitution of the United States approved?
No. 234
United States (1787)?
TO) Philadelphia

B) Washington DC
C) New York
D) Boston
AND) Lexington

Request Which of the following rulers defeated the Spanish Invencible Armada in
No. 235 1588?
TO) Elizabeth I of England
B) James VI of Scotland
C) Charles V of Habsburg
D) William I of Orange
AND) Frederick II of Prussia

Request With reference to France, which of the following alternatives reports the
No. 236 events given in correct chronological order?
Storming of the Bastille - proclamation of the Republic - regime of Terror -
TO) coup d'état of 18 Brumaire - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor

Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor - regime of Terror - coup

B) d'état of 18 Brumaire - storming of the Bastille - proclamation of the
Republic
Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire - storming of the Bastille - proclamation of
C) the Republic - regime of Terror - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned
emperor
Proclamation of the Republic - regime of Terror - storming of the Bastille -
D) coup d'état of 18 Brumaire - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor

Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor - coup d'état of 18

AND) Brumaire - Reign of Terror - storming of the Bastille - proclamation
of the Republic

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Request In which of the following battles did Napoleon finally come

No. 237 defeated in 1815?
TO) Waterloo
B) Marengo
C) Jena
D) Wagram
AND) Austerlitz

Request Which of the following alternatives puts the events in the correct order
No. 238 chronological?
Reign of Elizabeth I of England - accession to the throne of James I Stuart -
TO) English civil war - establishment of the republic with Oliver Cromwell -
restoration of the monarchy with Charles II
Accession to the throne of James I Stuart - English civil war - reign of Elizabeth I
B) of England - establishment of the republic with Oliver Cromwell
- restoration of the monarchy with Charles II
English Civil War - accession to the throne of James I Stuart - establishment
C) of the republic with Oliver Cromwell - restoration of the monarchy with
Charles II - reign of Elizabeth I of England
Reign of Elizabeth I of England - English civil war - accession to the throne of
D) James I Stuart - establishment of the republic with Oliver Cromwell -
restoration of the monarchy with Charles II
Accession to the throne of James I Stuart - establishment of the republic with
AND) Oliver Cromwell - restoration of the monarchy with Charles II - English civil war
- reign of Elizabeth I of England

Request Which of the following political figures became the first president of the
No. 239 United States of America in 1789?
TO) George Washington
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) James Monroe
D) Abraham Lincoln
AND) Thomas Jefferson

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Request
Which of the following conflicts ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?
No. 240
TO) Thirty Years' War
B) War of the Spanish Succession
C) Wars of the Roses
D) Hundred Years' War
AND) Cologne War

Request With which of the following treaties was the Economic Community established?
No. 241 European Union (EEC) in 1957?
TO) Rome
B) Amsterdam
C) Nice
D) Lisbon
AND) Maastricht

Which of the following alternatives indicates the document that in 1848 endowed the
Request
Kingdom of Sardinia of a constitution, and which would later become the
No. 242
fundamental map of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861?
TO) Albertine Statute
B) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
C) Roman Constitution
D) Napoleonic Code
AND) Magna Carta libertatum

Request Which of the following alternatives reports the given events in the correct order
No. 243 chronological?
TO) American Revolution - French Revolution - Russian Revolution
B) French Revolution - Russian Revolution - American Revolution
C) Russian Revolution - American Revolution - French Revolution
D) French Revolution - American Revolution - Russian Revolution
AND) American Revolution - Russian Revolution - French Revolution

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Request Which of the following alternatives reports the given events in the correct order
No. 244 chronological?
American Revolution - American Civil War - Spanish American
TO)
War - Great Depression - attack on Pearl Harbor
American Civil War - Spanish-American War - American
B)
Revolution - Great Depression - attack on Pearl Harbor
Spanish-American War - American Revolution - American Civil
C)
War - attack on Pearl Harbor - Great Depression
American Revolution - Spanish-American War - American Civil
D)
War - attack on Pearl Harbor - Great Depression
Spanish-American War - American Civil War - American
AND)
Revolution - Great Depression - attack on Pearl Harbor

Request In which of the following historical contexts does the political thought of
No. 245 Niccolo Machiavelli?
TO) Renaissance
B) Risorgimento
C) Restoration
D) French Revolution
AND) Russian Revolution

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