LITERATURA NORTE AMERICANA cae

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8a Questão (Ref.: 201402265828)
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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 descriptive poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
	
	a long, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the fears 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.
	
	a long, dramatic narrative poetry in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402265853)
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	Unlike many European groups, the Transcendentalists never issued a manifesto. They insisted on individual differences ¿ on the unique viewpoint of the individual. American Transcendental Romantics pushed radical individualism to the extreme. American writers often saw themselves as:
		
	
	group of explorers outside society and convention.
	 
	lonely explorers outside society and convention.
	
	lonely explorers outside the country and convention.
	
	lonely explorers outside society and out of convention.
	
	lonely explorers inside society and convention.
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402266241)
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	More than any other writer, Walt Whitman invented the myth of democratic America, he daringly turned upside down the general opinion that America was too brash and new to be poetic. He invented a timeless America of the:
		
	
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of only one nation.
	 
	free imagination, peopled without pioneering spirits of all nations.
	
	prohibited imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all nations.
	
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all states.
	 
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all nations.
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402265849)
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	During the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson gained fame for his lectures. While Emerson¿s ideas enraged some, they excited many others and helped create the transcendentalist movement, of which Emerson was the spokesperson. The core of transcendentalist thought was:
		
	 
	Optimism, self-reliance, intuition, and idealism
	
	Dynamism, self-reliance, intuition, and idealism
	
	Dynamism, self-resistance, intuition, and idealism
	
	Optimism, self-reliance, intuition, and realism
	 
	Dynamism, self-reliance, observation, and idealism
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402266296)
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	Huckleberry Finn has inspired countless literary interpretations. Clearly, the novel is a story of death, rebirth, and initiation. The escaped slave, Jim, becomes a father figure for Huck; in deciding to save Jim, Huck grows morally beyond the bounds of his slave-owning society. It is Jim¿s adventures that initiate Huck into the:
		
	 
	complexities of animal nature and give him moral courage.
	
	complexities of human nature and give him immoral courage.
	 
	complexities of human nature and give him moral courage.
	
	facilities of human nature and give him moral courage.
	
	complexities of human nature and give him no moral courage.
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402266294)
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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 damned to hell for breaking the law.
	
	he will be damned to heaven 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.
	
	he will be blessed to hell for breaking the law.
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201402266305)
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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 irony.
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and dignity.
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and tyranny.
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and liberty.
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive alphabets and irony.
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402266386)
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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.
		
	
	Walt Whitman / Henry James
	 
	Mark Twain / Henry James
	
	Mark Twain / Stephen Crane
	
	Mark Twain / Walt Whitman
	
	Stephen Crane / Henry James
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402265819)
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	The 18th-century American Enlightenment was a movement marked by an emphasis on:
		
	
	tradition rather than rationality, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative parliament in place of monarchy. .
	
	tradition rather than rationality, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. .
	 
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy.
	
	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.
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402265821)
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	Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the ideals of:
		
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of some groups.
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the common rights of man.
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural duties of man.
	 
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man.
	
	justice, democracy, and equality as the natural rights of man.
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201401475804)
	
	
	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.
		
	
	intercontinentalroad system, transcontinental telegraph
	
	intercontinentalrail system, continental telegraph
	 
	intercontinentalrail system, transcontinental telegraph
	
	continentalroad system, transcontinentaltelegraph
	
	continentalrail system, transcontinental telegraph
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402266295)
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	In Mark Twain¿s masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, from 1884, the main character was a son of __________, who was adopt by a respectable family. It was set in the ____________ village of St. Petersburg. Huck grows impatient with ________________ and plans to escape to ¿the territories¿ ¿ Indian lands. The ending gives the reader the counter-version of the classic American success myth: the open road leading to the pristine wilderness, away from the morally corrupting influences of ¿civilization.¿
		
	
	an alcoholic bum / Mississippi River / uncivilized society
	
	an alcoholic lawyer / Mississippi River / civilized society
	
	an alcoholic dummy / Mississippi River / civilized society
	 
	an alcoholic bum / Mississippi Canyon / civilized society
	 
	an alcoholic bum / Mississippi River / civilized society
	 5a Questão(Ref.: 201401646475)
	Thoreau¿s method of retreat and concentration resembles Asian meditation techniques. The resemblance is not accidental: like Emerson and Whitman, he was influenced by: 
	
	Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. 
	
	Greek and Buddhist philosophy. 
	
	Hindu and African philosophy. 
	
	German and Buddhist philosophy. 
	
	Hindu and Roman philosophy. 
	 6a Questão(Ref.: 201401646051)
	Toward the end of the 1700s, bold new ideas began to transform European civilization. In time, many of these ideas would become part of Romanticism, a movement in art and thought that dominated Europe and the United States throughout much of the 1800s. Some of the roots of this movement were: 
	
	optimism and liberalism, kinship with Nature and the power of darkness 
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with Nature and the power of lightness 
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with Nature and the power of darkness 
	
	optimism and individualism, aversion to Nature and the power of darkness
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with reality and the power of darkness 
	1a Questão(Ref.: 201401646625)
	Toni Morrison has suggested that though her novels are consummate works of art, they contain_________: ¿I am not interested in indulging myself in some private exercise of my imagination...yes, the work must be political.¿ In _______, Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
	
	political meanings /1995 
	
	political meanings / 1994 
	
	economical meanings / 1994 political meanings /1993 
	
	political meanings /1993 
	
	cultural meanings /1993