AVALIACAO II LITERATURA NORTE AMERICANA UNIASSELVI

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Avaliação II – Individual 
Literatura Norte-Americana (LLI45)
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Período para responder17/09/2021 - 05/11/2021
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1America represented for many pillgrims the accomplishment of a dream, the search of a place where a new life could be started, away from oppression and the harrash conditions of life that they fled in Europe. This new life and way of living they were allowed to start on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean provided them with some feelings and manners to conceive the world. 
Check the CORRECT answer, among the possibilities given bellow, the one best suits this new way:
A)  Being romantic because of the great amount of poets in England.
B)  A more natural way of life, as human beings are nature oriented in their everyday´s life
.C)  Individualism which is not exactly focused on being selfish and egoistic, but independent.
D)  A symbolic way of life, because for each impression corresponds an image.
2Ralph Waldo Emmerson was a consistente writer who wrote about the human person, characteristics of being an individual and relying on oneself. About his preferred gender, check the CORRECT answer:
A)  Poetry, novel and drama.
B)  Poetry only.
C)  Novels and stories.
D)  Essais.
3Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau are two representative names of the north-American literature. Both presented a very particular and rich style and way of dealing with deep feelings of the human gender. During the period they wrote their famous works some aspects, in particular, were more focused than others for each one of them. Check the assumption below. Associate the items:
I- "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.
II- Wherever runs the breathless sun -
Wherever roams the day -
There is its noiseless onset -
There is its victory!
(    ) Emily Dickinson.
(    ) Henry David Thoreau.
(    ) Represents individualism in a concrete way when living lonely in the woods.
(    ) It is a transcendentalism work as the author of it is loyal to herself.
Check the right answer:
A)  II - I - II – I
.B)  I - I - II – II
.C)  II - I - I - II.
D)  I - II - II - I.
4Romanticism was a literary mouvement that occured in North-America after its begining and spreading out through Europe. It actually started in Germany and quickly reached England and France, arriving around 1820 in the USA. It is the result of a rising of national identities and idealism. In the United States, two groups of writers coexisted: the so called pessimistics and the optimistics. Read the following statements and check T for true and F for false, according to what is stated in relation to the romantic mouvement in the north-american literature.
(    ) The pessimistic authors were also called "light" writers.
(    ) The optimistic authors were called "somber" writers.
(    ) Emily Dickingson was neither optimistic nor pessimistic.
(    ) The wonders and the perfection of nature was one of the main topics for north-american romanticism.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
A)  F - F - T – T
.B)  T - F - F - T.
C)  F - T - F - T.
D)  T - T - F - F.
5Romanticism appeared in North American literature in the nineteenth century. During this time, America knew the influence of two main tendencies: Calvinism and the strict rules of puritanism on one hand. Secularism or the possibility of living without any divine entity or god. This paradox throws authors into specific research: the beauty in the Arts. Among the choices given, check the one that DOES NOT CORRESPOND to one of the major characteristics of Romanticism in North American literature:
A)  The idea that feelings and ways of being are determined by nature, such as Charles Darwin had established by his scientific results
.B)  The "self-notion" to be exploited in words such as self-reliance and self-expression.
C)  Positivity, which even inspired the transcendental writers of this period.
D)  Exploiting beauty in the North-American environment, such as flowers, mountains, and landscapes.
6A few novels or books became as renown than the adventures of the book Moby Dick. The captain and the ocean, the ship and the animals, everyone has already travelled with this story, shall it be during childhood or watching cartoons about it. Read the following statements and check the relation there is between them, when it comes to this story writen by Melville:
I- In Moby Dick, a story of this important author, captain Ahab is an excentric character.
BECAUSE
II- He is physically and emotionally odd: one leg has been chewed by Moby Dick.
Check the CORRECT answer:
A)  I and II are true, but II isn´t an explanation for I.
B)  I and II are true, and II is an explanation for what is stated in I.
C)  I is true, and II isn´t.
D)  II is true, and I isn´t.
7Consider the excerpt bellow:
"An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify" (THOREAU, 1854, p. 49).
Read the following sentences and mark T for true and F for false:
(    ) It refers to the experience the author had about living in the woods.
(    ) It is related to the individualism, which characterizes the period.
(    ) It is a Strong example of the transcendentalismo.
(    ) It is the work of Whitman that best represents the individualism during that period.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
A)  F - T - F - F.
B)  T - T - T - F.
C)  F - F - T – T
.D)  T - F - F - F.
8In the mid-nineteenth century, a literary movement spread out in Europe and also in North America. It is the Realism and ist Naturalism branch. Both these movements concerned reality and likeness to it. Relate the following authors and works to the corresponding characteristics:
I- Honoré de Balzac - The Human Comedy.
II- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
III- Rebecca Harding Daves - Life in the Iron Mills.
(    ) The story portraits the life of people in a specific field: the north American steel branches and their harsh work conditions.
(    ) All aspects of human life are represented in this huge task which the author accomplished under long and daily hard work.
(    ) The stories combine pleasant adventure and realistic landscape descriptions. The action appears in such likeness to reality the author has been taken for the "Father" of American literature.
(    ) Combining humor to social critics and dressing the whole under the thoughts and adventures of a kid: how could we not all fit in this character's misfortunes?
Check the right answer:
A)  I - I - III - II.
B)  I - II - II - III.
C)  II - I - II - III.
D)  III - I - II - II.	
9We all know how to tell a story, as narrative is one of the faculties we seem to be born with. Since childhood, the first thing toddlers know to do all the time is telling parents what they have or what they have not been through all day long. When it comes to the literary gender, the novel, we are also faced to stories and telling, but some proceedings are to be applied. Order the steps of a novel and narrative bellow, in an order that corresponds to the perfect plot:
I- The conflict/edge.
II- The solution(s).
III- Tension and conflict growing.
IV- Situation.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
A)  IV - III - I - II.
B)  I - III - IV – II
.C)  II - IV - III – I
.D)  IV - II - I - III.
10In a literary mouvement, different values and aspects of life are usually presented. In the American literature, two worksget some attention: "Walden" and "Rhodora". Both works show as main subject the beauty and values of nature. They are thus good examples of Romanticism. Associate the following sentences to the right piece:
I- Walden.
II- Rhodora.
(    ) The beauty of the surface of water is a way to measure the depth of our own nature.
(    ) Flowers and their petals are so enchanted that there´s even no need one sees them.
(    ) A lake is compared to a mirror which reflects the human nature.
(    ) Is it really necessary to stop by and admire beauty?
Check the CORRECT sequence:
A)  II - I - I – I
.B)  I - II - I - II.
C)  I - I - II - II.
D)  II - I - II - II.
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