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the Cuba crisis was considered to be one of the most critical points of
the Cold War
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what does the term Shoah mean
the persecution and extermination of the Jews carried out by the Nazi regime
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What was the Motolov-Ribbentrop Pact?
A non-aggression pact drawn up in 1939 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
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According to Parmenides
Being is, non being is not
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According to Augustine, time...
Is created along with the world by God.
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In which year did Adolf Hitler become cancellor
1933.
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The Italian Republic was born on
2nd June 1946.
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Socrates wrote...
Nothing
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What did the Yealta Conference in 1945 define?
The political-territorial arrangement and structure of the world after the Alliance’s victory.
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Which of these countries was not part of the Warsaw Pact?
Federal Republic of Germany.
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The author of the Critique of pure reason:
Kant.
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Considering the Salt March, which of the following claims is correct?
It was a non-violent demonstration led by Mahatma Gandhi against British Raj.
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Who was the British prime minister at the beginning of WWII?
Chamberlain.
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“The only possibility would be to wager on the existence of God; such a wager not being made, should God exist you would lose eternal beatitude, or, should He not exist, you would, in the end, lose nothing”. This passage is attributable to the thought of:
Blaise Pascal
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Which among the following is a correct pairing?
Marx – Historical materialis.
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The Fourteen points were…
A speech by US President Woodrow Wilson.
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Who said these words? “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop”.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
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What does the Long March refer to?
The military retreat by the Chinese Red Army in 1935-1936.
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The term “Decolonization” means:
The historical process by which countries, which had previously been colonized, achieved independence.
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What are the features of the philosophical-cultural movement known as Positivism?
Faith in science and scientific-technological progress.
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According to Descartes, the expression cogito ergo sum (= I think, therefore I am):
Expresses the indisputable certainty that man has of himself as a thinking being.
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To whom does the expression Mothers of Plaza de Majo refer?
The mothers of the desaparecidos (“disappeared”) who gathered in this square of Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship (1976-1983).
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Which of the following statements regarding the Civil War in Italy is NOT correct?
The partisans who took part belonged exclusively to communist groups.
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If the power to a computer is cut off, the following information is lost:
in the RAM.
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Which of the following is a browser?
Firefox.
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What is a Screen Reader?
software which uses voice synthesis to read text from the screen.
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Which of the following statements about cookies is false?
they do not allow internet users’ navigation to be traced.
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Parental Control Software..
they can monitor websites and the duration of internet access.
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Is it always possible to copy data from a DVD-ROM (not video) to a hard disk?
Yes.
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Which of these statements about printing an e-mail with Microsoft Outlook is true?
You can always print e-mail.
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Totalitarianism is the system whereby...
power is exclusively in the hands of a single party, which tends to dominate the whole of society and to repress every form of dissent; there is a sole ruler supported by a close governing body.
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At the Conference of Yalta
along with other important decisions, the establishment of the United Nations was agreed upon
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What is meant by the expression New Deal?
The economic and social reform plan adopted by President Roosevelt to lift the country out of the Great Depression
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The Long March:
was the military retreat of the Chinese Red Army (1934-1935) to avoid being encircled by Kuomintang troops
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The Marshall Plan:
was designed for the supply of resources to help in the rebuilding of European countries ravaged by the Second World War
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What is meant by the expression the Prague spring?
a popular Czechoslovakian movement supporting the steps taken towards democratization and reform, as promoted by Dubček in 1968
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What does the expression Italian economic miracle mean?
The 1950s and 1960s - witnessing a strong growth in the economy and technology and leading to marked transformations in the life style of Italians
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Which event marked the outbreak of World War II?
The invasion of Poland by Germany
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Who was Nelson Mandela?
A man symbolizing equality and anti-racism, an anti-apartheid activist and the President of the Republic of South Africa
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At the end of the Second World War, Korea had been split into two zones. How did the Korean War end?
After three years of bloody warfare the border between North and South was established along the 38th parallel
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According to the Positivist view, philosophy:
maintains that real knowledge is that of the sciences
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Which of the following claims made in relation to Spiritualism (1800-1900) is NOT correct?
Hegel is one of the major exponents of the movement
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Nietzsche's Overman (Übermensch) is:
the man who goes beyond, accepts the loss of absolute certainties and lives exclusively in the present
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Heidegger employs the Greek term alètheia to indicate:
the revealing of the truth, the truth before metaphysics
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Kant's noumenon ...
indicates the conceivable yet unknowable essence of reality in itself, as juxtaposed to phenomenon
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The social and political vision of sophists is associated with …
Democracy
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In Plato, archetypes ...
correspond to ideas, in that they are eternal and transcendent models of things sensitive
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Catharsis in Aristotele:
is the temporary purification of the soul from negative passions
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For Thomas Aquinas reason and faith...
stand as two separate paths in order to reach God, that is, the sole truth
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Renaissance thinking:
places man and his life in society at the centre, concentrating on political philosophy
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Descartes may be considered the “father” of:
modern Rationalism
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The expression Verum ipsum verum factum by Vico indicates that ...
knowledge is founded on facts
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In A letter concerning toleration, Locke carries forth the idea of ...
the secular state, given that faith is not within the remit of the state
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In geographical maps what does the scale indicate?
The ratio between real measurements and those appearing on the map
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The term epicentre indicates:
the point on the Earth's surface where the earthquake produces major impact of intensity
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Which of the following claims does NOT concern population density?
It indicates an exponential and sudden increase in population
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Latitude is:
the distance of a point from the Equator, measured in degrees on the meridian passing through that point
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From the geo-political point of view, the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadalupe are:
French departments overseas
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What is the Continental Drift?
A geological theory according to which continents shift about the mantle, namely that layer under the Earth's surface
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The Maoris are ...
an indigenous population of New Zealand
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What is meant by the expression hydrographic basin?
The area marked by watersheds that gathers the waters flowing on the surface of the terrain and causes them to flow towards a specific hydric body
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Pablo Neruda is:
a Chilean poet, Nobel Prize winner for literature and considered one of the most renowned figures in contemporary Latin American literature
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The Betrothed by A. Manzoni, Ivanhoe by W. Scott, The Name of the Rose by U. Eco, War and Peaceby L. Tolstoy. What do these novels have in common?
They are historical novels
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Which of the following claims about The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is NOT correct?
it was the first book to be printed
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Ernest Hemingway wrote:
The Old Man and the Sea
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Michelangelo's David in Piazza della Signoria, Florence:
is a copy of the original kept in the Galleria dell’Accademia
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Andy Warhol:
is the best-known exponent of Pop art
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Baroque:
is marked by the search for movement and by the stark contrasts of light and shade, yielding a dramatic effect
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What do the films The Wild Bunch, Unforgiven, High Noon, and Stagecoach have in common?
They are westerns
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Chloé Zaho's much-acclaimed film Nomadland:
is the screen version of the book with the same title
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Born in Norway, considered the father of the modern theatre, he delves into the bourgeois existence of his era and his works include A Doll's House:
Henrik Ibsen
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What is meant by the screenplay of a film?
The final draft of the script of a film
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Presented for the first time in 1969 and since then staged hundreds of times, each time in different forms and duration, it is recognised as Dario Fo and Franca Rame's masterpiece …
Mistero Buffo: The Comic Mysteries
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The Ode to Joy, chosen as the official anthem of the European Union, was composed by:
Ludwig van Beethoven
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The Cannon (violin) – virtuosismo – The Caprices: all these elements pertain to:
Niccolò Paganini
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The following jazz musicians are associated with instruments they usually played. Which pairing is wrong?
Louis Armstrong - piano
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Three of the following devices have a common function. Which is the odd-man-out?
Plotter
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Using Microsoft Word, what is the procedure to find the opposites of a word?
With the command Thesaurus
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In Microsoft Excel, which function may be employed to get the highest recorded temperature of the week to appear in cell J4?
=MAX(C2:I4)
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What are Mailer Daemons?
E-mail messages sent automatically and containing error warning
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The key found in most web browsers - is for: (freccia rotonda)
reloading the current page
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Which option shows the units of measurement in the correct ascending order?
Kbyte - Mbyte - Gbyte - Tbyte
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The extension .gif identifies:
an image-containing file
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The capital of Sweden is:
Stockholm
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Put the following events in chronological order
The Great War – The Depression – The Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima – The Proclamation of the Republic in Italy
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In Microsoft Word, the key G on the toolbar is used for
applying “bold” to the selected text
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Which English Prime Minister has been nicknamed the Iron Lady?
Margaret Thatcher.
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In which year did the Capaci massacre occur?
1992.
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What massacre took place in Rome in 1944 shortly before the liberation of the city from Nazi troops?
Fosse Ardeatine.
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After the First World War, in Italy the expression "mutilated victory" was used to indicate:
Dissatisfaction with the lack of territorial acquisitions, the cause of nationalistic outbursts.
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What was the first capital of Italy?
Turin.
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By whom and in what year was the famous wall erected that separated Berlin in two for many years?
By the GDR in 1961.
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What happened in Ustica in 1980?
An Italian passenger jet crashed.
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Who founded the magazine "L'Ordine Nuovo"?
Antonio Gramsci.
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What was the Warsaw Pact?
A collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.
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When was the conquest of Ethiopia completed?
From 1935 to 1936.
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The first President of the Italian Republic was:
Enrico De Nicola.
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The official seat of the Government of the Italian Republic is:
Palazzo Chigi.
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Which was the first institution that led to the creation of the EU?:
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
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Which work is considered the first epistolary novel of Italian literature?
"Le Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis" by Ugo Foscolo.