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Literatura Norte americana modernidade - NOTA 8
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 202007587720)
	The title page of Anne Bradstreet's first book assures readers that she did not shirk her responsibilities as a wife and mother in order to write poetry. The poems were said to be:
		
	
	¿the fruit of some few hours, curtailed from sleep and other refreshments.¿
	
	" the deep cultural conflict between New England¿s Native American and European inhabitants"
	
	" The formation of alliances by the Native Americans against the settlers"
	
	" a realistic, if biased, account of Native Americans"
	
	" the history of hurricane survivors"
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 202008561836)
	Tell which of the following is true about Edgar Allan Poe.
		
	
	He died of a heart attack in Baltimore.
	
	His marriage was long and happy
	
	He wrote some humorous stories such as "Never Bet the Devil Your Head"
	
	His foster father supported him and his family
	
	His stories made him immensely wealthy.
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 202007587758)
	The Romantics tended to emphasize two aspects of nature¿ _______________. The darker Romantics, such as the Melville of Moby-Dick, stressed nature¿s destructive power. Although Ralph Emerson was sensitive to the power of the untamed American wilderness, he chose to dwell on the beauty of nature.
		
	
	power and construction
	
	beauty and power
	
	power and arrangement
	
	beauty and commitment
	
	beauty and slavery
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 202008117135)
	Twain ´s writing clearly contributes to the movement of Realism because he
		
	
	paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
	
	he represents life in an ideal way
	
	writes about ancient values
	
	views humans as naturally sinful people capable of good and bad things equally
	
	writes romantic tales
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 202008105895)
	Moby Dick is considered to be an ambitious novel for the time. That was a documentary of life at sea and a unique metaphor of ---------------in general.
		
	
	desire
	
	love
	
	aging
	
	friendship
	
	life
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 202008218560)
	Choose the word which best completes the following sentence; In fact, the Realism was a writing technique used to mean a subject matter. Besides, it was a reaction against the ---------------in a more systematized way.
		
	
	The Romanticism
	
	the Revolutionary Period writers
	
	the Colonial literature
	
	Puritanism
	
	the British literature
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 202007588196)
	_______________ is an artistic movement that manifests itself in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is characterized by the intention of an objective approach to reality and the interest in social issues. The ideological engagement causes often shaped and situations described are exaggerated to strengthen social denunciation.
		
	
	Romanticism
	
	Naturalism
	
	Cubism
	
	Realism
	
	Modernism
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 202007588292)
	Henry James once wrote that art, especially literary art, ¿makes life, makes interest, makes importance.¿ James¿s fiction and criticism is the most highly conscious, sophisticated, and difficult of its era. With Twain, James is generally ranked as the greatest American novelist of the:
		
	
	first half of the17th century.
	
	second half of the19th century.
	
	first half of the19th century.
	
	second half of the18th century.
	
	second half of the17th century.
	
	
	 9a Questão (Ref.: 202008017127)
	______________________ is one of Wharton's most famous works.
		
	
	Hucky Finn
	
	City of Glass
	
	Ghosts
	
	The Altar of the Dead
	
	The age of innocence
	
	
	 10a Questão (Ref.: 202008109321)
	Auster gained recognition for a series of three loosely connected detective stories published collectively as---------------.
		
	
	The House of Mirth
	
	The New York Trilogy
	
	Death of a salesman
	
	A streetcar named Desire
	
	The old man and the sea