LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA AVS 2016

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Avaliação:  LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA
	Tipo de Avaliação: AV
	
	Professor:
	MARCO GOMES DA SILVA
	Turma: 9001/AA
	Nota da Prova: 5,2    Nota de Partic.: 0   Av. Parcial 2  Data: 10/06/2016 14:01:03
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201301716960)
	Pontos: 0,5  / 1,0
	Moby-Dick or The Whale, Melville¿s masterpiece, is the epic story of the whaling ship emanates from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Write some parts of the narrative that show this characteristics.
		
	
Resposta: In Moby-Dick it's possibe to recognize the influence of the Puritan literature, which as predominat in the United States at that time. The author of Moby-Dick brought some representations ofthe Bible to the book usin methapho such as the ocean as life, the ship, and even the sailor Ismael and his capitain.
	
Gabarito: Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar (servant to Abraham¿s wife, Sarah). Ishmael and Hagar were cast into the wilderness by Abraham. Rachel (one of the patriarch Jacob¿s wives) is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael at book¿s end. Finally, the metaphysical whale reminds Jewish and Christian readers of the Biblical story of Jonah, who was tossed overboard by fellow sailors who considered him an object of ill fortune.
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201301717062)
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	As Henry James develops, his novels become more psychological and less concerned with external events. In James¿s later works, the most important events are all psychological ¿ usually moments of intense illumination that show characters their previous blindness. Give an example of these characteristics in one of his last works.
		
	
Resposta: James' works brought to his characters humanity, with flawless, doubts, and as thinkers abble do decide their own path. External events were no longer important because of the characters capacity to realize how to overcome their conflicts by themselves.
	
Gabarito: In The Ambassadors, the idealistic, aging Lambert Strether uncovers a secret love affair and, in doing so, discovers a new complexity to his inner life.
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201301716489)
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	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.
	
	Given the fact that she was born and educated in England.
	
	Because the author was a woman.
	 
	Given the lack of printing presses in the early years of the first American colonies.
	
	Because her husband had prohibited its publication.
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201301716503)
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	By the time of the Declaration of Independence, American literary patriots felt sure that the great American Revolution naturally would find expression in the epic. The concept of epic is:
		
	
	a long, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the fears of a legendary hero.
	
	a long, dramatic descriptive poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
	
	a long, dramatic narrative poetry in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
	
	a short, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
	 
	a long, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201301716523)
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	In the 1830s, the influence of Romanticism began to be felt in the United States. One result was ________________, a loosely organized movement that embodied the ideas of thinkers who were active in New England in the 1830s and 1840s.
		
	 
	Transcendentalism
	
	Enlightenment
	
	Realism
	 
	Rationalism
	
	Humanism
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201301716969)
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	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 blessed to hell for breaking the law.
	
	he will be damned to heaven for breaking the law.
	 
	he will be damned to hell for breaking the law.
	
	he will be damned to hell for no-breaking the law.
	
	he will be damned to hell for breaking the chains.
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201302347311)
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	When we read Nathaniel Hawthorne's books , we can clearly identify him as a:
		
	
	Transcendentalist
	 
	Religious
	 
	Dark Romantic
	
	Puritan
	
	Revolutionay
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201301716967)
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	Business boomed after the Civil War. It production had boosted industry in the North and given it prestige and political clout. It also gave industrial leaders valuable experience in the management of men and machines. The enormous natural resources ¿ iron, coal, oil, gold, and silver ¿ of the American land benefitted business. The new ______________, inaugurated in 1869, and the ________________, which began operating in 1861, gave industry access to materials, markets, and communications. The constant influx of immigrants provided a seemingly endless supply of inexpensive labor as well.
		
	
	intercontinental rail system, continental telegraph
	 
	intercontinental rail system, transcontinental telegraph
	
	continental rail system, transcontinental telegraph
	
	intercontinental road system, transcontinental telegraph
	
	continental road system, transcontinental telegraph
	
	
	 9a Questão (Ref.: 201301716980)
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	At the time of his death, Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, however, until two decades later when critics revived interest in his life and work. Stylistically, Crane's writing is characterized by:
		
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and dignity.
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and liberty.
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and tyranny.
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive alphabets and irony.
	 
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and irony.
	
	
	 10a Questão (Ref.: 201302147722)
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	Edith Wharton broke out of the conventional views of her time becoming the first woman to win the ___________________ for fiction.
		
	
	America Award
	
	Nobel Prize
	
	American Book Awards
	
	Franz Kafka Prize
	 
	Pulitzer Prize