LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA - MODERNIDADE - AV

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Nota 10 (Simulado - 2 pontos)
	1a Questão 
	The first published book of poems by an American was also the first American book to be published by a woman ¿ Anne Bradstreet. It is not surprising that the book was published in England, why?
		
	
	Due to the fact that she was already very famous in England for that time.
	
	Because the author was a woman.
	
	Because her husband had prohibited its publication.
	
	Given the lack of printing presses in the early years of the first American colonies.
	
	Given the fact that she was born and educated in England.
	
	
	 2a Questão 
	In literature the word Gothic applies to works with a brooding atmosphere that emphasize the unknown and inspire fear. Gothic novels typically feature wild and remote settings, such as:
		
	
	haunted castles or wind-blasted mills, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes.
	
	hunting castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes.
	
	haunted castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or mysterious events.
	
	big chapels and colourful gardens
	
	hunting castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or mysterious events.
	
	
	 3a Questão 
	Many Romantics were drawn to the nonrational side of human nature, such as the emotions, imagination, intuition¿even evil and insanity. They were also fascinated by remote periods of history and exotic places. All these interests came together in the type of writing known as:
		
	
	Lyric literature
	
	Gothic literature
	
	Classical Literature
	
	Critical literature
	
	Epic literature
	
	
	 4a Questão 
	The ideas of realism were profoundly liberating and potentially at odds with society. The most well-known example is Huck Finn, a poor boy who decides to follow the voice of his conscience and help a Negro slave escape to freedom, even though Huck thinks this means that:
		
	
	he will be damned to hell for no-breaking the law.
	
	he will be damned to hell for breaking the law.
	
	he will be damned to heaven for breaking the law.
	
	he will be blessed to hell for breaking the law.
	
	he will be damned to hell for breaking the chains.
	
	
	 5a Questão 
	Choose the option which best completes the following sentence:The majority of Hawthorne's work focuses on New England, based on moral values with
		
	
	strange locations
	
	a puritan inspiration
	
	modern themes
	
	a logical planning
	
	french ideals
	
	
	 6a Questão 
	Choose the word which best completes the following sentence: The Realism is a literary movement that shows life without idealizing it. It also focuses on the everyday, and on the ideology of ------------ reality of ideas.
		
	
	special
	
	local
	
	subjective
	
	objective
	
	interior
	
	
	 7a Questão 
	The Naturalism focused on the human nature, controlled by their passions and instincts, the same way the characters were directed related to their environment and heredity. Needless to say, this movement became a logical extension of ------------------.
		
	
	Puritanism
	
	Modernism
	
	Realism
	
	Romanticism
	
	Transcendentalism
	
	
	 8a Questão 
	An important feature of James¿ characters is that, even considering the subjective aspect of their personalities, each of them will always accept his/her realistic nature. How does James do this so?
		
	
	By showing a frequent change in the characters' behaviors.
	
	By assuring intelligent dialogues among characters.
	
	By assuring that each character acts in a consistent manner throughout the whole novel.
	
	By creating round characters only.
	
	By creating flat characters only.
	
	
	 9a Questão 
	Considering American Literature timeline, writer Edith Wharton wrote in the:
		
	
	20th Century
	
	19th Century
	
	18th Century
	
	21st Century
	
	17th Century
	
	
	 10a Questão 
	Paul Auster searched for ---------and personal meaning in his works.
		
	
	money
	
	traditional values
	
	happiness
	
	identity
	
	republican distinctions