SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Italian Culture And Geography
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Alessandro Volta
Roman Catholics
Minister of Education
Michelangelo
2. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Mediterranean Sea
Cavour
Dante
Vesuvius
3. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Arturo Toscanini
John Cabot
The Alps
Italian
4. Which seas are to the west?
La Befana
Tiber
Italian
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
5. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Po
Leonardo da Vinci
Bernini
6. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Minister of Education
Adige
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Mont Blanc
7. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Mussolini
Botticelli
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Enrico Fermi
8. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Christopher Columbus
Giuseppe Mazzini
Boccaccio
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
9. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Risorgimento
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Italian
10. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Stromboli
The Alps
Tiber
Po
11. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Petrarca
Cavour
Marconi
Raphael
12. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Sicily
Rossini
Mediterranean Sea
Christopher Columbus
13. Who is considered the founder of modern experimental science - invented the telescope - thermometer - and hydroscale - and was put on house arrest for opposing the church?
Caruso
Botticelli
Mediterranean Sea
Galileo
14. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Vesuvius
Lorenzo Ghiberti
La Befana
Caruso
15. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
South of Naples
Brunelleschi
Christopher Columbus
The Apennines
16. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Sicily
La Befana
Risorgimento
soccer - il calcio
17. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Brunelleschi
Vesuvius
Etna
Adriatic Sea
18. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Brunelleschi
Sunny Italy
Roman Catholics
Adige
19. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
The Alps
Alessandro Volta
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Sunny Italy
20. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
The Alps
Sardinia
Dante
'il bel paese'
21. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Petrarca
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Island of Stromboli
22. Italian is a ___ language.
Romance
Raphael
Adige
Carbone
23. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Carbone
Petrarca
Giacomo Puccini
Mont Blanc
24. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Sicily
South of Naples
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Leonardo da Vinci
25. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
Giacomo Puccini
Garda
Machiavelli
Boccaccio
26. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Brunelleschi
Titian
Machiavelli
Giacomo Puccini
27. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Titian
Mussolini
Marconi
Caruso
28. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Raphael
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Giuseppe Verdi
Alessandro Volta
29. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Bernini
La Befana
Sardinia
Luigi Pirandello
30. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Raphael
Brunelleschi
Giuseppe Mazzini
Cavour
31. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
soccer - il calcio
Botticelli
Capri - Ischia
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
32. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Risorgimento
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Sunny Italy
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
33. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
Giuseppe Verdi
Eastern Sicily
South of Naples
Italian
34. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
'il bel paese'
Titian
La Befana
Machiavelli
35. Which river flows through Rome?
Florida
Arno
Tiber
Sardinia
36. What political party is in power?
Dante
Antonio Vivaldi
Christian Democratic Party
Christopher Columbus
37. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Island of Stromboli
Vesuvius
Arno
Giuseppe Garibaldi
38. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Eastern Sicily
Marco Polo
La Befana
39. What is the highest point in Italy?
Alessandro Volta
Antonio Vivaldi
Enrico Fermi
Mont Blanc
40. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Marconi
Titian
Minister of Education
Giuseppe Verdi
41. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Sardinia
Giuseppe Mazzini
Bernini
Giuseppe Garibaldi
42. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Sicily
Etna
43. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Bernini
'il bel paese'
Mediterranean Sea
44. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Capri - Ischia
Florida
Bernini
Marco Polo
45. Who was the first king of Italy?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Roman Catholics
Minister of Education
Giacomo Puccini
46. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Sunny Italy
Romance
Adriatic Sea
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
47. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Adige
Garda
La Befana
The Apennines
48. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Antonio Vivaldi
Christopher Columbus
Adriatic Sea
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
49. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Mussolini
Minister of Education
Cavour
Giuseppe Garibaldi
50. What is the official language of Italy?
Italian
South of Naples
Giuseppe Verdi
Marconi