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The text admits that Dutch culture, understood as “collective ways of seeing themselves, and the world beyond”, in lines 5 and 6, was a conscious invention.  

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Although conceived by a few local intellectuals and elite members, Dutch culture exerted an appeal over the rest of the country because the latter saw themselves reflected by those artistic expressions.  

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As a consequence of the extreme fragmentation of American policy-making and diplomacy, ambassadors of the United States represent only the interests of the federal government abroad. 

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Texts of treaties agreed upon by the American chief executive in an international negotiation might come to be later rejected or modified by the Senate of the United States. 

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Effective diplomacy in the traditional sense assumed that commitments made through the diplomatic process would be enforced by a single center of power in the diplomat’s own country, irrespective of any resistance from other domestic authorities.  

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above, decide whether the statements below are right (C) or wrong (E). 

In the statement “Videocassettes are beginning to crowd out the books”, in line 7, one could infer that tapes might outnumber books at some point. 

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In Vidal’s opinion, Joe Alsop was not likeable.  

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In the last paragraph, Vidal admits that, unlike himself, Alec Guinness and Terry Southern are not nostalgic. 

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Italian Renaissance decisively contributed to usher in the age of European domination.