Questions practice Class SA1. Give a definition of intelligence and explain the main concepts which lay under

Gardners " Multiple tntelllqence" theory.2. Give a definition of artificial intelligence and tell what its aims and its main approaches

are.3. Tell who Alan Turing was and why he is considered the father of ali digital computers.4. Illustrate the role played by A.Turing during the 2nd W.W.5. Outline A.Turing's revolutionary ideas in the field of computer science.6. Can a machine be considered intelligent? Give a definition of Artificial Intelligence and

tell what its aims are.7. Hai 9000 in 5 Kubrick's film "2001, A Space Odyssey" can be considered an intelligent

machine, Why?8. Oescribe Hai 9000, his role, his personality.9. After watching the disconnection scene in the film and reading it from the novel by A.

Clarke, what differences can you find? Which do you prefer and why?10. What is a computer network and what are its advantages?11. Give a definition of data network and describe the main features of LANs and WANs.

Give two examples of LAN broadcasting topologies. ((-q.C)vA n4G-G-t C:ì12. Give a definition of LAN and describe its mai n features (sìze, physical-Iogical topologies,

transmission technology, media).13. If you want to send or if you receive an e-mail what are the risks for your privacy?What

solutions would you suggest?14. Give a definition of Ethernet and illustrate its role, topology, media.15. In an Ethernet contest, what are the roles played by MACand LLC?16. NAMETHE MOST IMPORTANTCOMPUTERINFECTIONS ANO BRIEFLYOESCRIBEONE OF

THEM17. Tell the difference between Malware and defective software.18. What is meant by Public Key Cryptography? Outline the advantages of using it.19. What is a firewall and what does it do? Explain the proxy system method20. What is meant b}!,malware and hacker in a security context? / CcNY)~eJ\ 'S.,.O~ l21. Illustrate the immediate causes and the actual causes which brought to WWl. I

22. Which were the main fronts which WWl was fought on?23. What is meant by "war of attrttìon" and how was it fought?24. Which were the main causes which brought to the Russian Revolution?25. Which reality of the WWl did the so called War Poets experience and express in their

poems? ~vA t1I\G(:''0

26. Compare the poem The Soldier by R. Brook and Italia by G. Ungaretti and theirattitudes towards their mothercountry and the lstWW.

27. Analyse Wilfred Owen's Oulce et Oecorum est from the formai point of view. (rhyme,rhythm, use of words. sound, images).

28. Try to explain what was the role of the War Poets in the 1st World War society.29. Try to analyse the extract read in class from A Farewell to the Arms by E. Hemingway

from the formai point of view, highlighting the typical features of his innovative style.30. Oefine the contest in which this novel was written.31. How does Hemingway presents the topic of war?32. Which were the most important effects of the two World Wars on art, philosophy and

literature with special reference to the structure of the novel ?33. What are the consequences on English poetry?34. Oescribe the structure of The Waste Land and illustrate the reasons why it is considered

a masterpiece in modernist literature.35. What is meant by Object Correlative?36. Compare Meriggiare Pallido e assorto by E. Montale and What the Thunder Said by

T.S.Eliot. What similarities can you find?37. Modernist novelists used the "stream of conscìousness" technique. Give a definition and

illustrate some examples.38. Illustrate which were the immediate causes of WW2.39. Explain what was the Battle of Britain and which was the role played by W. Churchill..::,M(What's meant by dystopian novel? Give an example. l'K)