LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA AVALIANDO 6 A 10

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LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA Lupa
Exercício: CEL0573_EX_A6_201408371022 Matrícula: 201408371022
Aluno(a): JOHNNY MASSAO OZAWA Data: 04/11/2016 14:13:30 (Finalizada)
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 Questão (Ref.: 201409119649) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
In Huckleberry Finn, the author questioned
the happy life people lived by the Mississipi river
the morality of white southerners
the good life conditions slaves had 
the cooperation between the white people and slaves
the foolish idea of Tom helping Jim to reach freedom.
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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.
interior
special
subjective
objective
local
3a Questão (Ref.: 201408604359) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
Like _______________, _______________ first appeared in Europe. It is usually traced to the works of Honoré de 
Balzac in the 1840s and seen as a French literary movement associated with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond and Jules 
Goncourt, Émile Zola, and Guy de Maupassant. 
Romanticism / Cubism 
Romanticism / Impressionism 
Romanticism / Realism 
Romanticism / Modernism 
Romanticism / Naturalism 
4a Questão (Ref.: 201408604277) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
The United States changed rapidly after the Civil War. American writers reacted to these changes by turning away 
from Romanticism toward ___________, a literary movement whose writers depicted life as they saw it, not as 
they imagined it to be.
Modernism 
Naturalism 
Romanticism 
Cubism 
Realism 
Gabarito Comentado
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The gap between rich and poor Americans widened greatly, and a few so-called robber barons became enormously 
wealthy as a result of the labors of their employees. Cities were______________, and the poor were forced to live 
in tenement houses that were crowded, dirty, and unsafe.
overexposed 
overestimated 
overpopulated 
overlooked 
overjoyed 
6a Questão (Ref.: 201408604281) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
The rise of __________ in the United States can be traced to disillusionment following the Civil War. For many, the 
war had destroyed the Romantic view of humanity.
Naturalism 
Romanticism 
Realism 
Modernism 
Cubism 
7a Questão (Ref.: 201408604357) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
______________is essentially a literary expression of determinism. Associated with bleak, realistic depictions of 
lower-class life, determinism denies religion as a motivating force in the world and instead perceives the universe 
as a machine.
Romanticism / Cubism 
Romanticism / Realism 
Romanticism / Modernism 
Romanticism / Naturalism 
Romanticism / Impressionism 
8a Questão (Ref.: 201409234640) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
In Realism,all the literary content is simple and not more important than the characters. The characters usually 
belong to the ---------------.
educated classes.
upper classes.
middle class.
foreign classes.
high society.
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 LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA Lupa
Exercício: CEL0573_EX_A7_201408371022 Matrícula: 201408371022
Aluno(a): JOHNNY MASSAO OZAWA Data: 05/11/2016 14:06:28 (Finalizada)
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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: 
Kinship with Enlightenment 
Aversion to Humanism 
Kinship with Reality 
Aversion to Nature 
Kinship with Nature 
Gabarito Comentado
2a Questão (Ref.: 201409234652) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
Naturalistic writers believed governmental laws were supposed to be interpreted through the objective study of 
human beings. Besides, the writers used this --------------- as raw material to write their novels.
historical data
moral code
logical outline
romantic pattern
scientific method
3a Questão (Ref.: 201408604269) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
___________________ between the industrial North and the agricultural, slave-owning South was a watershed in 
American history. The innocent optimism of the young democratic nation gave way, after the war, to a period of 
exhaustion. American idealism remained but was rechanneled.
The U.S. Civil War (1860-1865) 
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) 
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1864) 
The U.S. Civil War (1860-1866) 
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1866) 
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Many consider The Age of Innocence to be the best of Edith Wharton's literature. It has been described as a 
"masterful portrait of desire and betrayal set in the New York of her youth." The book is a historical novel, 
describing the events of a New York long since changed. In fact, the original title of the book was 
________________. The novel describes her own adolescence.
Virginia 
The Conjure Woman 
Old New York 
Babbitt 
The Grapes of Wrath 
5a Questão (Ref.: 201408604368) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
_____________belonged to an aristocratic New York family with ancestry dating back three centuries. As a 
daughter of society , her role was to learn the mannerisms and rituals expected of well-bred young women in those 
days. Later she would rebel against this role but as a child she was schooled at home and had the privilege of use 
of her father's extensive library. She was privately educated at home and in Europe.
Harriet Jacobs 
Harriet Beecher Stowe 
Sarah Orne Jewett 
Edith Wharton 
Mary Wilkins Freeman 
6a Questão (Ref.: 201408604369) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
When World War I began, Edith Wharton was in the middle of it. She traveled extensively by motorcar, helped 
untiringly with refugees in Paris during the first World War, and actually only returned once again in her lifetime to 
the United States to accept the Pulitzer prize for her novel:
The Great Gatsby. 
Our Nig. 
The Age of Innocence. 
An American Slave. 
Virginia. 
7a Questão (Ref.: 201408604358) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
______________is essentially a literary expression of determinism. Associated with bleak, realistic depictions of 
lower-class life, determinism denies religion as a motivating force in the world and instead perceives the universe 
as a machine. 
Cubism 
Naturalism 
Romanticism 
Modernism 
Realism 
8a Questão (Ref.: 201408604285) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
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 tyranny. 
descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive alphabets and irony. 
descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and irony. 
descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and liberty. 
descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and dignity. 
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Exercício: CEL0573_EX_A8_201408371022 Matrícula: 201408371022
Aluno(a): JOHNNY MASSAO OZAWA Data: 05/11/2016 14:21:02 (Finalizada)
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Henry James once wrote that art, especially literary art, ¿makes life, makes interest, makes importance.¿ James¿s 
fiction and criticismis 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 the19th century. 
second half of the18th century. 
second half of the17th century. 
second half of the19th century. 
first half of the17th century. 
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This is one of the Latin expressions used by James in "The figure in the carpet" and it means "a person who really 
cares about truth¿.
status quo
vere-care
persona non grata
carpe diem
sine qua non
3a Questão (Ref.: 201409235692) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
Choose the option which best completes the following sentence: As a great prose writer in American Literature, 
James ´ artistic intentions and evolving literary style reflected the transition from the Victorian to --------------------
-- in English literature.
Revolutionary literature
Puritan values
the Ancient times
Classical literature
the Modern times
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If the main theme of _____________¿s work is appearance and reality, ___________¿s constant concern is 
perception. In James, only self-awareness and clear perception of others yields wisdom and self-sacrificing love.
Stephen Crane / Henry James 
Mark Twain / Stephen Crane 
Mark Twain / Henry James 
Mark Twain / Walt Whitman 
Walt Whitman / Henry James 
5a Questão (Ref.: 201409125335) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
Henry James made use of the technique of the stream of consciouness and that means he was interested in the ----
------of the characters he created.
historical records
minds
actions
bodies
style
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Henry James was one of the first famous novelists to use modernist, stream-of-consciousness techniques. That 
made him also use an aesthetic approach that reveled the process of "showing" rather than a simple act of ---------
------
writing
reading
fighting
telling
listening
7a Questão (Ref.: 201409235730) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
The figure in the carpet is a critical story interpreted as a paradigm for theories that believes literature never tells 
the truth and even that truth is nonsense. Consequently, the stories turn out to be --------, starting with names 
from Latin referring to truth, vere-care, for instance, was the name of the main character. In other words, it means 
a person who really cares about truth.
ironical
sad
difficult
happy
simple
8a Questão (Ref.: 201409032906) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
All this psychoanalytic aspect of James´ painterly style is due to the influence and awareness owed much to his 
remarkable family. His father, for instance, was .....
a psychologist and a theologian
a professor and a theologian
a philosopher and theologian 
philosopher and college professor
a psychiatrist and a philosopher
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 LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA Lupa
Exercício: CEL0573_EX_A9_201408371022 Matrícula: 201408371022
Aluno(a): JOHNNY MASSAO OZAWA Data: 05/11/2016 14:36:02 (Finalizada)
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Considering American Literature timeline, writer Edith Wharton wrote in the:
21st Century
17th Century
18th Century
20th Century
19th Century
Gabarito Comentado
2a Questão (Ref.: 201409033199) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
______________________ is one of Wharton's most famous works.
City of Glass
Ghosts
The Altar of the Dead
Hucky Finn
The age of innocence
Gabarito Comentado
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All characteristics bellow can be applied to Edith Wharton's personality, EXCEPT for:
charming
curious
energetic
thinker
interesting 
Gabarito Comentado
4a Questão (Ref.: 201409125350) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton, a realist American writer, was published in-------and won the 
Pulitzer Prize.
2004
1700
1666
1920
1806
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Edith Wharton broke out of the conventional views of her time becoming the first woman to win the 
___________________ for fiction.
Nobel Prize
America Award
Pulitzer Prize
Franz Kafka Prize 
American Book Awards
6a Questão (Ref.: 201409125347) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
The Age of Innocence writen by Edith Wharton is a brilliant, sharply ironic portrayal of the changing scene of 
fashionable American life in--------
Boston
Old New York
Chicago
Italy
London
7a Questão (Ref.: 201409035039) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
Consider the following statements about Edith Wharton's writing style: I-Although Wharton was a wealthy person, 
she used to confront social problems with sympathy. II- Wharton was deeply conservative, opposed to socialism. 
III- Wharton placed unlovable women in her novels and used it as the most powerful weapon to create sympathy 
for them. Which option is correct?
Only statement II and III are true
All three statements are true
Only statement III is true
Only statements I and III are true
Only statement I is true
Gabarito Comentado
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 LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA Lupa
Exercício: CEL0573_EX_A10_201408371022 Matrícula: 201408371022
Aluno(a): JOHNNY MASSAO OZAWA Data: 05/11/2016 14:52:43 (Finalizada)
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All the following are Auster's works EXCEPT for....
The City of glass
New York trilogy
The Other Two
The locked room
Ghosts
Gabarito Comentado
2a Questão (Ref.: 201409125409) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Beckett, and Herman Melville have also had a strong influence on Auster's writing. Not 
only do their characters reappear in Auster's work (such as William Wilson in City of Glass or Hawthorne's Fanshawe 
in The Locked Room, both from The New York Trilogy), Auster also uses variations on the ----------- of these 
writers.
literary criticism
conflicts
themes
life
settings
3a Questão (Ref.: 201408604377) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
In the options below, choose what are novels from Toni Morrison:
Beloved / Amanda 
The woman Warrior / The Color Purple 
Amanda / The Woman Warrior 
Song of Solomon / The Color Purple 
Beloved / The Color Purple 
4a Questão (Ref.: 201409125382) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
Paul Auster searched for ---------and personal meaning in his works.
traditional values
republican distinctions
happiness
identity
money
Gabarito Comentado
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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
The old man and the sea
A streetcar named Desire
6a Questão (Ref.: 201409125426) Fórum de Dúvidas (0) Saiba (0)
Paul Auster uses the detective form to address existential issues and questions of identity, space, language, and 
literature, creating his own distinctively ---------------- form in the process.
realist
postmodern
romantic
transcendental
puritan
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