RP Literatura - 1a5

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Registro de Participação Literatura Inglesa
Aula 1
1.Choose the option which best suits the statements below. In some questions one of the answers is wrong:
Mark the wrong option: The Celts
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 1) were tall
 2) had fair hair
 3) had red hair
 4) had blue eyes
 5) probably came from India
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2.The Celts were very successful
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 1) painters
 2) teachers
 3) cooks
 4) farmers
 5) dancers
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3.The first Roman invasion of the lands we now call the British Isles took place in 
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 1) 53 B.C.
 2) 43 B.C
 3) 55 B. C
 4) 2 B.C
 5) 2000 B.C
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4.Choose the only option which does not complete the following sentence. When Roman civilization  broke down-
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 1) in the towns people stopped using coins and returned to barter.
 2) the populations of towns were already falling and this continued.
 3) poor people became richer
 4) rich people left to be self-sufficient on their estates
 5) more and more space within the walls of towns was giving over to growing crops
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5.The Viking raids were good for Anglo-Saxon England because they forced the Anglo-Saxons to build a 
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 1) a strong state in self-defense. 
 2) a wall around England
 3) large roads
 4) simple castles
 5) a different strategy to run the city.
Aula 2
1.Choose the option which best suits the statements below. In some questions one of the answers may be the  wrong one:
A short metaphorical description of a thing used in place of the thing"s name is a
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 1) kenning
 2) story
 3) poem
 4) song
 5) book
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2.Beowulf kills
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 1) only Grendel
 2) the other warriors
 3) the king
 4) Grendel and his mother
 5) the lords
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3.Strong kings demand bravery and loyalty their warriors, whom they repay with
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 1) treasures hidden in the woods
 2) money given by the king
 3) treasures won in war
 4) treasures the king did not want anymore
 5) treasures with no value
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4.Beowulf was written in
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 1) modern English
 2) old English
 3) middle English
 4) old French
 5) modern French
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5.Over the course of the poem, Beowulf matures a valiant combatant into 
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 1) a wise leader
 2) a careless king
 3) an owner of treasures
 4) a  crazy warrior
 5) a coward leader
Aula 3
1.Although very few people"s lives resembled the courtly love ideal in any way, these themes and motifs were extremely
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 1) strange
 2) uncommon
 3) disturbing
 4) popular
 5) clear
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2.Courtly love motifs first appear in The Canterbury Tales with the description of the Squire in
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 1) the end of the poem
 2) the general prologue
 3) the religious tales
 4) the last tales
 5) the tale about the knight
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3.The Monk, Prioress, and Friar were all members of the
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 1) English court
 2) the French society
 3) Parliament
 4) army
 5) clerical estate
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4."The Canterbury Tales"  was written in
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 1) modern English
 2) old English
 3) middle English
 4) old French
 5) modern French
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5.At the Tabard Inn, a tavern in Southwark, near London, the narrator joins a company of
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 1) twenty-nine pilgrims
 2) three knights
 3) ten warriors
 4) eight women from Barth
 5) six religious leaders
Aula 4
1.King Arthur is a hero , but more than that he is a
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 1) strange hero
 2) common hero
 3) unknown hero
 4) tragic hero
 5) funny hero
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2.Morte D´Arthur exemplifies the religious and secular aspects of medieval 
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 1) army
 2) chivalry
 3) ceremonies
 4) kingdom
 5) comedies
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3.The sources for Malory's work are mainly 13th-century French prose romances, with the exception of book V, which is a prose adaptation of the alliterative Morte Arthur, .
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 1) a-  an Irish short story
 2) a modern poem
 3) a French poem from the 15th century.
 4) An ancient romance
 5) a 14th-century English poem.
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4.Merlin is who counsels King Arthur.
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 1) priest
 2) king
 3) magician
 4) soldier
 5) teacher
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5.Launcelot is the noblest knight in the world, torn by a which must result in his destruction of all he loves best. 
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 1) a conflict of loyalties
 2) a terrible pain
 3) a sword
 4) a stroke
 5) a magician
Aula 5
1.In the famous balcony scene Romeo associates Juliet with
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 1) a river
 2) a flower
 3) the sunlight
 4) the moon
 5) the stars
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2.One notion  that is common in many tragic plays is 
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 1) tragic flaw
 2) capitalist  flaw
 3) psychological analysis of characters
 4) happiness
 5) comedy
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3.A timeless quest, to which Shakespeare brings a special quality that we can  qualify as truly
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 1) undetermined
 2) vague
 3) old-fashioned
 4) ancient
 5) modern
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4.In Macbeth  a lot of the tension  lies in the thirst and greed for 
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 1) joy
 2) women
 3) magic
 4) power
 5) love
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5.in  Romeo and Juliet, is tragedy of 
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 1) joys
 2) horror
 3) certainties
 4) unawareness
 5) happiness
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