Social Life and Education

Question 1

After WWII the major (three) changes Italians experienced were?

Answer 1

Internal migration, urbanization, and modernization

Question 2

Do urbanization and modernization deeply affect the family?

Answer 2

The role and statue of woman changed

Question 3

How did women’s positions in society change?

Answer 3

The entered the labour force and their formal education improved. The number of marriages dropped and the size of the Italian family decreased.

Question 4

Name four of the laws that improved women’s status in the 1970s?

Answer 4

Divorce Law, Family Law, Workplace Anti-discrimination Law, and the Law legalizing abortion.

Question 5

Elementary is called?

Answer 5

scuola elementare

Question 6

Middle school is?

Answer 6

scuola media

Question 7

High school is?

Answer 7

scuola superiore

Question 8

A scuola superiore can be either two things?

Answer 8

a liceo or a istituto (tecnico or professional)

Question 9

There are four main kinds of liceo?

Answer 9

Scientific, Classical, Linguistic, and Artistic.

Question 10

A high school where students specialize in vocational training?

Answer 10

instituto tecnico

Question 11

The exam to get into university is called?

Answer 11

esame di maturita

Question 12

University exams consist of two types?

Answer 12

written and oral exam

Question 13

A university degree is called?

Answer 13

laurea