The document contains multiple choice questions about various topics in history and literature. It asks about the agreements that contributed to the Cold War, the purpose of the Marshall Plan and EOEC, when and why the UN was established, details about European decolonization, conferences that ended World War 2, reasons for opening the Berlin Wall and 1968 demonstrations, principles of the Italian constitution, the Prague Spring, Italian Nobel Prize winners, authors like Elsa Morante and Elio Vittorini's magazines, the chronology of Montale's poetry collections, themes in Beckett's theater of the absurd, details of the European flag and Italian prime ministers, when the 20th Communist Party Congress took place, the meaning of the

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1. The "cold war": which agreements contributed to set it in the international pattern?
a) The Locarno Treaties and the Yalta Conference
b) The Agreement between USA and Western European Powers
c) Some agreements of mutual assistance established by France, England, Belgium, Holland and
Luxemburg and actualized in the Atlantic Treaty.
2. The Marshall Plan: what was it?
a) An ideological war against the “communist totalitarianism”
b) An economic support to help rebuild Western European economies
c) An economic support to help rebuild Eastern European economies
3. What was EOEC?
a) European Organization for Economic Cooperation, made for organizing economic support for
the Third World countries and ex colonial territories
b) European Organization for Economic Cooperation, made for organizing economic support for
the European countries
c) European Organization for Economic Cooperation, made for protecting the European markets
from the USA intrusiveness.
4. When and why the UN was established?
a) it was established in 1950 to defend peace, freedom and democracy all around the world
b) it was established in 1941 as an anti-Germanic purpose to defend peace, freedom and
democracy all round the world .
c) it was established in 1945 to defend peace, freedom and democracy all around the world
5. Which region was the most advanced in the French Colonial Empire?
a) Algeria, which became independent in 1962 through a referendum
b) Tunisia, which became independent on 20th
march 1956. on 25th
July 1957 it was proclaimed a
Republic
c) Marocco, independent since1957.
6. What conferences ratified the peace at the end of the Second War World War?
a) The Okinawa and Dongo Conference.
b) The Teheran, Yalta (4-11th
February 1945) and Potsdam (12th
April '45) Conference
c) Versailles, Vichy and Berlin Conferences.
7. Why has the Berlin Wall been opened?
a) to encourage the unification between the two Germanys

2. b) because Gorbacëv ordered the German President Erich Honecker to.
c) because the Eastern Germans migration to Hungary and Austria was incessant.
8. Why the demonstrations in 1968 took place?
a) because the Christian Democrat governments were inconclusive, especially concerning the
economic reforms
b) because the new generation began to show intolerance toward the bipola reason that had
affected the international relationships
c) because youth and workers, disappointed by the Italian Communist Party’s policy and
encouraged by the influence of the extra parliamentary communists, a need of changed arisen
9. What kind of principles is the Italian Constitution based on?
a) it is based on Fascist principles
b) it is based on Catholic principles
c) it is a document inspired by liberal principles and social rights founded on anti-fascist values.
10. What is the " Prague Spring"?
a) the beginning of a deep crisis which, in 1967, led Czechoslovakia to an economic collapse.
b) a renewed season of collaboration promoted by PCUS and the popular democracies
c) the beginning of a vast programme based on economic and democratic promoted in 1968 by
president Alexander Dubcek.
11. Which one of these Italian people won the Nobel Prize?
a) Salvatore Quasimodo
b) Giuseppe Ungaretti
c) Sandro Penna
12. Who wrote "The History"?
a) Elsa Morante
b) Oriana Fallaci
c) Dacia Maraini
13. In September 1945 Elio Vittorini founded a new magazine, whose aim was to promote “
a culture which not only consoles the grief, but a culture which protects from grief, which fights
against grief and eliminates grief”. What was the magazine’s name?
a) La Voce
b) Il Politecnico
c) Il Menabò
d) Lacerba
14. the chronological order of Montale’s poems collection is:
a) Ossi di seppia / Le occasioni / La bufera e altro / Satura.
b) Satura / Ossi di seppia / Le occasioni / La bufera e altro.
c) Le occasioni / Ossi di seppia/ La bufera e altro / Satura
d) La bufera e altro / Satura / Ossi di seppia / Le occasioni.

3. 15. what are the messages of Beckett’s Theatre of Absurd?
a) the revolt against the absurdity of the industrialized life in favor of a more authentic existence
b) the absurdity of and the lack of communication among human beings
c) the absurdity of social conventions
16. how many stars are there on the European Flag?
a) 6
b) 10
c) 12
17. Which Italian Prime Minister promoted the so said “law-fraud”?
a) Tambroni
b) Fanfani
c) De Gasperi
18. When does the XX PCUS Congress, famous for Kruscev’s condemnation about
Stalin’s crimes, took place?
a) 1956
b) 1953
c) 1958
19. Cold War means:
a) the contrast between Communist and Western coalitions
b) the Russian campaign
c) the Nazi invasion of Poland
20. Which one of these Politicians isn’t connected to the Second World War?
a) Truman
b) Lenin
c) Roosevelt
d) Churchill
21. Giorgio De Chirico’ painting is:
a) metaphysical
b) realistic
c) futurist

4. 22. Salvador Dalì described his works’ procedure as:
a) emotional method
b) pharaonic – critic method
c) free association method
23. What is pop art?
a) poor art
b) modern art
c) popular art
24. Who is the most representative artist of the pop art?
a) Kandinskij
b) Magritte
c) Warhol
25. “Protagonist is the real object, picked and collected when its normal life is over, as to
say when the artist can give back the object’s lived through his work” this is the slogan of an
artistic movement in the 60s, which one?
a) Nouveau Realisme
b) Metaphysical
c) Surrealism