Medicine test 2021, and you know what a Zapotec is? Test yourself with general knowledge questions | All questions and answers

The entrance test to the Faculty of Medicine took place on Friday 3 September. The admission exam includes 60 multiple choice questions to be completed in 100 minutes: 22 of logic and general culture (10 plus 12) 18 of biology, 12 of chemistry, 8 of physics and mathematics. Those that require more study by students are normally the questions of biology and chemistry, but the most feared of all (for their unpredictability) are the questions of general culture. By clicking on the link below you can read all the questions and answers published online by the ministry of the University at the end of the exam (the correct answers are always to letter A).

MEDICINE TEST 2021, ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

An opportunity to test yourself with your general knowledge (these are questions from 11 to 22): how many of you, for example, know what a Zapotec is? Not many, we fear: yet “Zapotec” is the exact answer to question number 14:
In four of the following terms the suffix “-teca“ has the same meaning. Find the remaining term.
A) Zapotec
B) Emeroteca
C) Pinakoteca
D) Library
E) Sound library
Among the other questions of general culture the racial laws and Fiume, who wrote Mistero Buffo, the two meanings of the word “invoice” (intended as a fiscal document but also as an “act of witchcraft”: an association of ideas which, in a a country of tax evaders like ours, does not appear exactly as an incentive to pay taxes!), and what is the «stream of consciousness».

PS
Zapoteca is the feminine declension of the Zapotec adjective which means – as we read on Treccani – «belonging to an indigenous population, ancient and modern, of central-southern Mexico, settled in the current state of Oaxaca – the z tribes; art, culture z .; ceramic z. pre-Columbian; the z language, the z dialects. (and absol., as sm, the Zapotec).

The places up for grabs for Medicine and Surgery this year are 14,020 in addition to 1,253 places for Dentistry. In all 15,273 places for 77,376 students enrolled in the exam: one out of 5 will pass. there were 14,278 in all.