LITERATURA NORTE AMERICANA

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LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA
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	"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states". Another Enlightenment important figure wrote these lines in the Declaration of Independence. Who was this man and when was the Declaration published?
		
	
	Thomas Jefferson in 1776 
	
	Benjamin Franklin in 1776 
	
	Noah Webster in 1777 
	
	Thomas Paine in 1777 
	
	Adam Smith in 1777
		
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201307294560)
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	Corset maker, cobbler, teacher, tax collector¿ he failed miserably at every line of work he attempted in his native England. This man achieved his successes with a pen only, but his contribution to the cause of freedom is incalculable. Common Sense inspired even the most reluctant to rebel against what he called the ¿tyranny of Britain¿. He was: 
		
	
	Noah Webster 
	
	Adam Smith
	
	Benjamin Franklin 
	
	Thomas Jefferson 
	
	Thomas Paine 
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	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201307294550)
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	The 18th-century American Enlightenment was a movement marked by an emphasis on:
		
	
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of questioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of parliament. 
	
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquisition instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. 
	
	tradition rather than rationality, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. . 
	
	tradition rather than rationality, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative parliament in place of monarchy. . 
	
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. 
		
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201307294552)
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	Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the ideals of:
		
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man. 
	
	justice, democracy, and equality as the natural rights of man. 
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural duties of man. 
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of some groups.
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the common rights of man. 
		
	
	
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	Anne Bradstreet was inspired by English metaphysical poetry, and her book The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650) shows the influence of: 
		
	
	Edmund Spencer and Cotton Mather 
	
	Edward Taylor and Philip Sidney 
	
	Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney 
	
	Edward Taylor and Cotton Mather 
	
	Philip Sidney and Cotton Mather 
		
	
	1a Questão (Ref.: 201307294572)
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	Many American Romantics believed in the beneficial effects of a close link between humanity and nature. This belief coexisted with a concern that the spread of industry and new technology threatened the natural world and isolated people from it. It was a characteristic of: 
		
	
	Aversion to Humanism 
	
	Aversion to Nature 
	
	Kinship with Nature 
	
	Kinship with Enlightenment 
	
	Kinship with Reality 
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	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201307294568)
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	During the Age of Reform, in the 1820s, idealistic Americans began an eager rush to improve American society, producing an outburst of reform movements. Some of these movements were:
		
	
	The organizations to secure women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and close prisons. 
	
	The organizations to provide better care for the mentally ill, and improve prisons and to maintain slavery.
	
	The organizations to sustain slavery, to maintain the free trade drinks, secure women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and improve prisons.
	
	The organizations to maintain slavery, secure women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and improve prisons.
	
	The organizations to end slavery, stop drunkenness, secure women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and improve prisons. 
		
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201307294969)
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	"_______________ is the belief that the world around us is always improving. Some American Romantics presented an optimistic view of the possibility of human progress, based in part on a democratic confidence in the ability of ordinary individuals to better themselves, their political system, and society."
		
	
	Optimism 
	
	Rationalism 
	
	Liberalism 
	
	Enlightenment 
	
	Humanism 
		
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201307294999)
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	The Puritan themes of sin, isolation, expiation, and salvation and his characteristic settings in Puritan colonial New England, are trademarks of many of Hawthorne¿s best-known shorter stories, which are:
		
	
	¿My Kinsman, Major Molineux¿ and " Moby-Dick" 
	
	¿My Kinsman, Major Molineux¿ and " Moby-Dick" 
	
	¿My Kinsman, Major Molineux¿ and "The Raven" 
	
	" Moby-Dick" and ¿Young Goodman Brown¿ 
	
	¿The Minister¿s Black Veil¿ and ¿Young Goodman Brown¿ 
		
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201307294578)
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	In their time, the Boston Brahmins (as the patrician, Harvard-educated class came to be called) supplied the most respected and genuinely cultivated literary arbiters of the United States. Their lives fitted a pleasant pattern of wealth and leisure directed by the strong New England work ethic and respect for learning. The most important Boston Brahmin poets were: 
		
	
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Russell Lowell. 
	
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. 
	
	Barry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. 
	
	Gary Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.
	
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gulliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.