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Which constitutional distinction between regions is correct?

  1. AMainland administrative regions and island autonomous regions are different categoriesCorrect answer
  2. BAdministrative regions are another name for the Azores and Madeira
  3. CAutonomous regions are sovereign organs
  4. DAdministrative regions are regional courts

Explanation

Articles 236 and 255 provide the mainland category and its legal creation. This does not prove those regions are established and operating.

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  1. Constituição da República Portuguesa

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    Artigo 236.º, n.os 1–2; 255.º

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Besides parties, who may submit local election candidacies under law?

  1. ALocal employers’ associations
  2. BNational professional associations
  3. CGroups of citizen electorsCorrect answer
  4. DMunicipal service companies

Explanation

Article 239 allows groups of citizen electors as well as parties and coalitions to submit candidacies for local bodies.

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  1. Constituição da República Portuguesa

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    Artigo 238.º, n.os 1–4; 239.º, n.os 1–4

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Which is the parish’s collegiate executive body?

  1. AParish assembly
  2. BMunicipal assembly
  3. CRegional Government
  4. DParish boardCorrect answer

Explanation

Articles 244–246 distinguish the executive board from the deliberative assembly. In small parishes, law may provide an electors’ plenary instead of the assembly.

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  1. Constituição da República Portuguesa

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    Artigo 244.º; 245.º, n.os 1–2; 246.º

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Which municipal deliberative body includes elected members and parish-board presidents?

  1. AMunicipal executive
  2. BRegional Legislative Assembly
  3. CMunicipal assemblyCorrect answer
  4. DCouncil of Ministers

Explanation

Article 251 defines this municipal assembly composition; the municipal executive is the collegiate executive under Article 252.

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  1. Constituição da República Portuguesa

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    Artigo 250.º; 251.º; 252.º

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Law 7/99 associates Mirandese with the cultural heritage of which area?

  1. ATerra de MirandaCorrect answer
  2. BBaixo Alentejo
  3. CAlto Douro
  4. DRibatejo

Explanation

Article 2 links the language to communication and identity in Terra de Miranda. It does not declare a second official language nationwide.

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  1. Lei n.º 7/99 — direitos linguísticos da comunidade mirandesa

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    Artigos 1.º–5.º

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Who wrote Os Lusíadas?

  1. AFernando Pessoa
  2. BEça de Queirós
  3. CLuís de CamõesCorrect answer
  4. DJosé Saramago

Explanation

The museum identifies Luís de Camões as the author of Os Lusíadas, an epic poem in ten cantos.

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  1. Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis — Desenhos sobre Camões

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    Paragraph beginning São exemplo desses desenhos

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Which description of the form of Os Lusíadas is correct?

  1. ANovel in ten chapters
  2. BEpic poem in ten cantosCorrect answer
  3. CPlay in five acts
  4. DCollection of ten short stories

Explanation

The museum identifies an epic poem divided into ten cantos. A canto here is a division of poetry, not a novel chapter.

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  1. Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis — Desenhos sobre Camões

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    Paragraph beginning São exemplo desses desenhos

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In Pessoa’s writing, what distinguishes a heteronym?

  1. AA pseudonym that only substitutes the author’s name
  2. BAn anonymous narrator shared by all the texts
  3. CA historical author writing in collaboration with Pessoa
  4. DA created literary identity with its own voice and biographyCorrect answer

Explanation

Pessoa describes creating different personalities and relations between them. Their biographies belong to the literary construction.

Sources and citations

  1. Casa Fernando Pessoa — Carta a Adolfo Casais Monteiro

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    Introductory summary; paragraphs beginning Passo agora, Aparecido Alberto Caeiro, Criei então

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Which of these names is a heteronym created by Fernando Pessoa?

  1. AEça de Queirós
  2. BJosé Saramago
  3. CAlberto CaeiroCorrect answer
  4. DLuís de Camões

Explanation

Alberto Caeiro is a literary personality created by Pessoa. The other names refer to distinct historical writers.

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  1. Casa Fernando Pessoa — Carta a Adolfo Casais Monteiro

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    Introductory summary; paragraphs beginning Passo agora, Aparecido Alberto Caeiro, Criei então

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Which Portuguese poetry book did Pessoa publish during his lifetime, in 1934?

  1. AMensagemCorrect answer
  2. BOs Lusíadas
  3. CPoesia
  4. DSó

Explanation

The chronology records Mensagem in 1934. This does not mean Pessoa published no other Portuguese texts.

Sources and citations

  1. Casa Fernando Pessoa — Cronologia

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    1929; 1934; 1982

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To whom were the Livro do Desassossego fragments published from 1929 to 1932 attributed?

  1. ARicardo Reis
  2. BÁlvaro de Campos
  3. CAlberto Caeiro
  4. DBernardo SoaresCorrect answer

Explanation

Casa Fernando Pessoa identifies Bernardo Soares in those fragments. Publishing fragments differs from the book’s first edition, which was posthumous.

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  1. Casa Fernando Pessoa — Cronologia

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    1929; 1934; 1982

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Who is the author of the novel Os Maias?

  1. AFernando Pessoa
  2. BEça de QueirósCorrect answer
  3. CJosé Saramago
  4. DLuís de Camões

Explanation

Gulbenkian’s exhibition presents Os Maias as a novel by Eça de Queirós. Its subtitle is Episódios da Vida Romântica.

Sources and citations

  1. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian — Eça e Os Maias

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    Introduction; 1888 – A Vasta Máquina!; Guerra ao Romantismo

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