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1During the Romantic Period, literature treated aspects of life in England and Great Britain. In her novel Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen tells about the romantic life of an impoverished family, the Dashwoods, mainly the girls Marianne and Elinor.  Order the events according to their appearance in the novel:
I- Elinor realises that she was no longer the object of her friend Edward's affection.
II- Introducing the Dashwoods family.
III- Miss Jennings tries to comfort Marianne by assuring her that the day she ever meets Mr. Willoughby she would give him a piece of her mind (dizer poucas e boas).
IV- Marianne Dashwood had been born to an extraordinary destiny (...) and gave herself in free will to [another man: Mr. Brandon].
Check the right sequence:
A
II - I - III - IV.
B
IV - III - I - II.
C
III - II - IV - I.
D
I - IV - II - III.
2Social, political, historical circumstances may be of great influence on the life and writings of an author. This is due to the fact that the person in real life expresses in literature a part of what he or she is. Take Jane Austen and her works. Order the events bellow according to a chronological order:
I- Pride and Prejudice is issued.
II- Got celebrity as a novelist at her time.
III- Had the first book writen at the age of 17.
IV- Cassandra was her best friend ever.
Check the right sequence:
A
I - III - IV - II.
B
IV - III - I - II.
C
II - I - III - IV.
D
III - IV - II - I.
3In this novel, five sisters live with their mother in England. Mrs. Sutherland, the mother, gets not enough of looking for good pretendents to marry her daughters, granting they have a nice future assured. But her plans are not exactly what the girls expect, especially Elizabeth, who really desires a great life. This is the main intrigue of the following novel:
Check the right answer:
A
It's the main content of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen.
B
A poem writen by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
C
John Keats, under great influence of the Greek classics and some writers of the XVIth century.
D
We are talking about Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.
4Among the main changes that occurred in English literature during the struggled years following the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, are the status attributed to poetry and new genders of romances and/or novels. Read the following statements:
I- Poetry is vocational.
II- There's some tragic dimension in life, poetry can make you feel emotional.
III- Men are greedy, society, compared to a machine.
IV- History can be shown through literature.
Associate the items:
(    ) Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.
(    ) Ivanhoé, by Sir Walter Scott.
(    ) Samuel Coleridge.
(    ) John Keats.
Check the right answer:
A
III - IV - I - II.
B
II - I - III - IV.
C
IV - II - III - I.
D
I - IV - II - III.
5Leia os versos a seguir, extraídos do poema "Prophety":
"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales".
Sobre o exposto, classifique V para as sentenças verdadeiras e F para as falsas:
(    ) A obra pertence ao Romantismo inglês.
(    ) Trata-se de um verso escrito por Jane Austen, no final da Era Vitoriana.
(    ) Este autor escreveu poemas e foi muito admirado pela rainha Vitória.
(    ) Alfred Lord Tennyson começou seus estudos em Cambridge, mas não chegou a terminá-los, devido à morte de seu pai.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA:
FONTE: Revista Prosa Verso e Arte. Disponível em: http://www.prosaversoearte.com. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2020.
A
F - F - V - V.
B
F - V - V - F.
C
V - F - V - V.
D
V - V - F - F.
6A masterpiece of the english literature is Frankenstein, writen by Mary Shelley, who was born in 1797. Mary Shelley wrote the story of Victor Frankenstein, and granted celebrity as a Gothic writer. Among the choices bellow, check the one that best presents this novel and its importance in the English Literature:
Check the right answer:
A
Frankenstein is considered the first real science fiction novel in English Literature as it relates it to the huge progresses made by Science and technologies at the time.
B
Frankenstein reveals the feellings of an artificial man made creature.
C
The author, Mary Shelley, actually writes an authobiograhy.
D
Frankenstein reveals the real power of the Industrial Revolution.
7The Industrial Revolution provided society with a great number of inventions and developments. Life changed from a major agricultural society to urbanicity and work in factories. Literature, as a reflect of social and historical events, is under great influence of these historical and social changes that Great Britain used to know during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.
Consider the following authors:
I- Charles Dickens.
II- Samuel Butler.
III- Oscar Wilde.
Relate them to their corresponding social and/or historical issue:
(    ) His work foccuses esthetics and pleasure in life.
(    ) Dresses criticism against the Victorian period and contests the power money.
(    ) Under the influence of the ideas of Charles Darwin, the author satirizes criminal punishement, religion and the anthropocentered view of life.
(    ) Concerns about honesty, social classes and life in the city of London for the left out of the good and nice British society.
Check the right sequence:
A
II - I - I - III.
B
II - I - III - II.
C
I - III - III - II.
D
III - I - II - I.
8After the first periods of British Literature, the Romantic period appears to be a time of major changes and strong development in society: it occurs after the French Revolution and under the Industrial Revolution started in the regions of Germany. Among the main writers in this period, Walter Scott was born in Scotland in 1777 and wrote, among others, the historical novels. William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, on the other hand, wrote lyrical material. Read the statements below and associate them to the right author(s):
I- Walter Scott.
II- William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.
Associate the items:
(    ) Literary critics and Philosophy were also among the styles.
(    ) Ivanhoé is anglo-saxon and fights for loyalty.
(    ) The main facts occur under the reign of Richard Lyon's Heart, XIIth Century.
(    ) Lyrical Balads was the starting point of Romanticism in England.
Check the right sequence:
A
II - II - I - II.
B
I - II - I - II.
C
II - I - I - II.
D
I - II - II - I.
9William Butler Yeats, nascido em Dublin no ano de 1835, foi poeta e dramaturgo, porém foi na poesia seu maior destaque. Aprofundou-se nos aspectos culturais da Irlanda, como antigos mitos do local. Gostava de ser conhecido como poeta irlandês e não inglês, sendo que seu engajamento político para a independência da República da Irlanda era forte, tanto que se tornou senador em 1922. Referente à vida e às obras de Yeats, classifique V para as sentenças verdadeiras e F para as falsas:
(    ) Yeats se dedicou desde o início da sua carreira aos mistérios da imaginação, mitologia, esoterismo e magia.
(    ) Em 1887, Yeats passou a pertencer a uma sociedade teosófica, que é a ciência dos fundamentos e mistérios de todas as coisas.
(    ) William Butler Yeats é considerado um dos melhores poetas do século XX.
(    ) Yeats foi o primeiro irlandês a ganhar o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura, em 1923.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA:
A
V - V - V - F.
B
F - V - V - V.
C
F - F - V - V.
D
V - F - F - V.
10Who is Sherlock Holmes? That's a great question when it comes to British literature. This character was actually introduced for the first time in the work "A Study in Scarlat", in 1887. Since then, the character has grabbed such a worldwide celebrity that one may even think at him as a real life's person. Read the following statements and analyze the relation between them:
I- The Hound of the Baskerville's is perhaps one of the best known Sherlock Holmes stories. Why is thatso? He's a goast in it.
BECAUSE
II- The story is associated to aristocraty, dogs and crime, and may be seen as one of the creepiest stories of Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle.
Check the right answer:
A
I is a true statement, and II is a true statement. II deepens or completes the information presented in I.
B
I is a true statement, and II is a true statement. There is no relation between them.
C
I is a false statement, and II is a true statement.
D
I is a true statement, and II is a false statement.