2ºSimulado LITERATURA INGLESA I

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Choose the alternative that best describes the reign of Elizabeth I, also known as 
Elizabethan age: 
 
 
It was a period that witnessed the first time a woman raised to the throne. 
 
It was a period when England consolidated the religious Reformation initiated by 
Mary I, or the ''Bloody Mary'', asserting itself as a great European power. 
 
It was a period of great political stability thanks to ''the Elizabethan 
Settlement''. 
 
It was a period of great peace and stability due to ''The Act of Supremacy of 
1558''. 
 The Elizabethan age witnessed a flowering of the arts, thriving in the economy, 
advancements in technological and scientific fields, and the opening of the New 
World voyages 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:49:02 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: The Elizabethan age witnessed a flowering of the arts, thriving in the 
economy, advancements in technological and scientific fields, and the opening of the New 
World voyages 
 
 
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Queen Elizabeth's image was associated with classical and biblical models. Choose the 
alternative that best characterized how she intended to be perceived: 
 
 
Above all, she self-fashioned herself as Gloriana, due to all the glory cast on her 
and on her people. 
 
Above all, she self-fashioned herself as Deborah, due to her adherence to 
Catholicism. 
 
Above all, she self-fashioned herself as Venus, due to her unique beauty. 
 Above all, she self-fashioned herself as the Virgin Queen, married to her nation, 
mother to her people. 
 
Above all, she self-fashioned herself as the Lonely Queen, married to her 
nation, mother to her people. 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:49:29 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: Above all, she self-fashioned herself as the Virgin Queen, married to her 
nation, mother to her people. 
 
 
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The Elizabethan Age (or Golden Age) was a period in which music, art and literature 
thrived. Choose the alternative which contains representatives of this flowering of the 
arts: 
 
 
Edmund Spenser, John Milton and John Donne 
 
William Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd and Geoffrey Chaucer 
 William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Edmund Spenser 
 
Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Geoffrey Chaucer 
 
Thomas Kyd, John Milton and William Shakespeare 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:49:58 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Edmund Spenser 
 
 
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The next step on the development [of theater] takes place when the members of 
various guilds, who really liked acting in the cycles, decided that they wanted to do 
theater and, abandoned their original crafts, organized themselves into small itinerant 
groups, that walked around looking for audiences. These small groups faced a very 
serious problem, because, abandoning the realm of religious activity, they were 
prohibited to make their plays based on biblical tropes [or about the life of Saints]. The 
positive result of this prohibition is that it determined the emergence of original 
authors. (HELIODORA, 2015, p. 17) 
Source: (adapted from) HELIODORA, Bárbara. ''Dramaturgia Elizabetana: Uma 
Introdução''. In: Dramaturgia Elizabetana. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2015. 
Identify the option that correctly explains how the first morality plays happened to 
come into England's theatrical scene. 
 
 Morality plays started to be written after a group of men left their various 
guilds to live theater as their craft. 
 
Morality plays were prohibited by the Crown because they enacted Vice and 
Virtue as insurrectionists. 
 
Morality plays always existed throughout England, but they got to the city only 
after Elizabeth I was crowned. 
 Morality plays were part of a circuit of biblical episodes which aimed at 
moralizing its audience by enacting testimonies of the Church¿s beliefs. 
 
Morality plays came to be only after atheism became a popular practice in 
Renaissance England. 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:53:09 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: Morality plays started to be written after a group of men left their 
various guilds to live theater as their craft. 
 
 
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After leaving university, instead of taking orders and dedicating to a career in the 
Anglican church, Marlowe went to London and, there, giving ways to his restless 
temperament and to his brilliant mind, he lived a life of wantonness and fights both on 
the streets and in the taverns where he found those with a similar temperament (...). 
Marlowe's last encounter with the law was profoundly serious, when he faced the 
accusation of atheism and unpiety, grave faults at the time. (HELIODORA, 2015, p. 
171) 
Source: (adapted from) HELIODORA, Bárbara. ''Dramaturgia Elizabetana: Uma 
Introdução''. In: Dramaturgia Elizabetana. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2015. 
After reading the contextualization above and the affirmatives below, mark the only 
option indicating the correct set of affirmative(s). 
I. Marlowe had small problems with the law at his time and lived an untroubled life in 
London. 
II. Marlowe's settling in London was part of moving away from taking orders as an 
Anglican cleric. 
III. Marlowe's short career as a playwright was, probably, the result of the agitated life 
he had among drinks, fights and plays. 
 
 
II, only. 
 
I, II and III. 
 I and III, only. 
 
I, only. 
 
II a III, only. 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:50:31 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: I and III, only. 
 
 
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[Regarding the cycles], each guild was responsible for representing just one episode, 
staged on top of a wheel cart and, on the day of [Corpus Christi], following the 
sequence of the Bible, these carts enacted the whole collection of mysteries, from 
Genesis to Judgement Day (...). It is obvious that on top of these carts it was not 
possible to stage big scenarios, so that this scenic tradition has two important 
consequences for the Elizabethan Theater: the absence of scenarios, with a common 
scenic space for every action in play, and the challenge to create visual images through 
their words to compensate for this absence of scenarios. (HELIODORA, 2015, p.16-17) 
Source: (adapted from) HELIODORA, Bárbara. ''Dramaturgia Elizabetana: Uma 
Introdução''. In: Dramaturgia Elizabetana. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2015. 
I. Elizabethan theater was known for its lack of props and scenarios on the stage. 
BECAUSE 
II. They had a lot of problems with rats at Southbank, which usually destroyed all the 
props and clothing of the plays. 
Regarding these affirmatives, mark the correct option. 
 
 
Affirmatives I and II are true, but II is not a correct justification of I. 
 
Affirmatives I and II are true, II is a correct justification of I. 
 Affirmative I is true, and II is false. 
 
Affirmative I is false, and II is true. 
 
Affirmatives I and II are false. 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:50:45 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: Affirmative I is true, and II is false. 
 
 
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As you have studied, the figures of ''constables'' were present in Shakespearean 
comedies such as Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for 
Measure. Read the statements and label them as either True (T) or False (F). 
(1) The comedy lines revolving around their battles of wit confirms the constables' 
depiction as wise characters. 
(2) The humorous tone of these characters intended to mock repressive military 
authorities who usually belonged to prestigious and wealthy classes of Elizabethan 
England. 
(3) Constables' financial rewards in real life were not commensurate with their manifold 
duties. 
 
 
(1) F/ (2 )T/ (3) T 
 
(1) T/ (2) T/ (3) T 
 
(1) T/(2) F/ (3) F 
 (1) T/ (2) F/ (3) T 
 
(1) F (2) F/ (3) T 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:51:01 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: (1) T/ (2) F/ (3) T 
 
 
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Read and compare these quotes from Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing, 
respectively. Afterwards, choose the most appropriate alternative concerning their 
plots. 
(1) ''Some shall be pardoned, and some punished./ For never was a story of more woe/ 
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.'' (5.3.324-326) 
(2) ''Beatrice: I would not deny you, but, by this good day, I yield upon/ great 
persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told/you were in a consumption. 
Benedict: Peace! I will stop your mouth.'' (5.4.96-100) 
 
 The first quote is professed by Prince Escalus so as to describe his feeling of 
grief which stemmed from the tragic ending of the play, despite the humorous 
lines and comedy structure from its beginning. The second, in contrast, consists 
of a scene conveying an affectionate reciprocity and levity between the lovers 
after mishaps. 
 
Both scenes summarize the happy closures of the plays: in (1), evil characters 
would be either ''punished'' or ''pardoned'', and in (2) the two lovers 
affectionately joke about their relationship and kiss each other. 
 
Both extracts help convey a peaceful atmosphere. However, in (1) peace derives 
from mourning and in (2) it results from Benedict's request. 
 
Both scenes describe problematic relationships and tragic endings, for the first 
plot involves terrible deaths and in the second one Beatrice feels impelled to be 
with Benedict, pitying him. 
 The first and the second extracts convey the tragic endings of both plays, and in 
the second quote, even though the former lovers remain alive, Benedict 
expressess aggressiveness towards Beatrice, demanding her to be quiet. 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:54:49 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: The first quote is professed by Prince Escalus so as to describe his 
feeling of grief which stemmed from the tragic ending of the play, despite the humorous 
lines and comedy structure from its beginning. The second, in contrast, consists of a scene 
conveying an affectionate reciprocity and levity between the lovers after mishaps. 
 
 
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Sodomy was a capital crime, and fulminations against the act were a staple of polemical 
literature of all kinds. Antitheatrical tracts assumed that boys who played the women's 
roles on stage played them in life as well; anti-Catholic invective declared ecclesiastical 
celibacy to be a cover for institutionalized buggery; judicial indictments for political or 
religious crimes often included additional charges of sodomy - indeed, sodomy tended 
to serve as a gloss on whatever the culture considered worst or most threatening: those 
accused of atheism or sedition were almost invariably declared also to be sodomites. 
The corollary, however, is that the charge is almost never found in isolation; and, in 
fact, the legal definition of sodomy was exceedingly narrow. 
Source: ORGEL, Stephen. ''Introduction''. In: SHAKESPEARE, William. The Sonnets. 
EVANS, G. Blakemore (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 
Mark the alternative which correctly points out why Shakespeare's overtly homoerotical 
sonnets could be part of this cultural scene. 
 
 Sodomy was not equivalent to homoeroticism; actually, in Elizabethan England 
friendship and love between men was a common part of the patronage system. 
 
Sodomy in poetry was a common trope since it goes back to Greek democracy 
in which men¿s love for men was part of society. 
 
Since sodomy was a capital crime in England during the Elizabethan age, the 
sonnets participation on this cultural scene can be understood as a moral 
practice. 
 
Because Shakespeare was not directly involved with the publication of the 1609 
edition, it is possible that he did not want these sonnets to come out in the 
public. 
 
The court¿s homosexual practices in Elizabeth England surpassed the law 
against sodomy. 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:56:01 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: Sodomy was not equivalent to homoeroticism; actually, in Elizabethan 
England friendship and love between men was a common part of the patronage system. 
 
 
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The poems addressed to the 'Dark Lady' begin with a justification of her complexion - it 
is assumed from the outset that her variance from the traditional ideal requires a 
justification. 
In the old age black was not counted fair, 
Or if it were it bore not beauty's name; 
But now is black beauty's successive heir, 
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame' (from Sonnet 127) 
Source: ORGEL, Stephen. ''Introduction''. In: SHAKESPEARE, William. The Sonnets. 
EVANS, G. Blakemore (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 
After reading the exposition above, we understand that the 'Dark Lady' of 
Shakespeare's Sonnets 
 
 
... is the same as the Petrarchan ideal of his sonneteer's beloved. 
 
... imitates Petrarch's idealized Laura in all aspects but content. 
 ... alters only the name of the Petrarchan idealized Laura. 
 ... differs from the Petrarchan ideal of his sonneteer's beloved. 
 
... differs from Petrarch¿s idealized Muse only to follow his contemporary, 
Edmund Spenser. 
Respondido em 27/10/2021 13:56:06 
 
Explicação: 
A resposta certa é: ... differs from the Petrarchan ideal of his sonneteer's beloved.