Tudo LITERATURA NORTE AMERICANA 2

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5a Questão (Ref.: 201402265829)
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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:
		
	
	Adam Smith
	
	Benjamin Franklin
	 
	Thomas Paine
	
	Thomas Jefferson
	
	Noah Webster
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201402265827)
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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 Paine in 1777
	
	Benjamin Franklin in 1776
	 
	Noah Webster in 1777
	 
	Thomas Jefferson in 1776
	
	Adam Smith in 1777
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402266260)
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	Dickinson¿s 1,775 __________ continue to intrigue critics, who often disagree about them. Some stress her mystical side, some her sensitivity to nature; many note her odd, exotic appeal. Her clean, clear, chiseled poems are some of the most fascinating and challenging in American literature.
		
	
	romances
	
	poetries
	
	plays
	 
	poems
	
	sonnets
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402787349)
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	Anne Bradstreet was a woman who wrote -------------in the 17th century. She represented the heart of American women at that time.
		
	 
	fairy tales
	
	recipes
	
	novels
	 
	poems
	
	lesson plans
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402786537)
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	By reading one of Jonathan Edwards ´ sermons entitled Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, you can recognize his literary tendency to reform the values of theology with determinism and still showing his----------
		
	
	Classic origins
	 
	Revolutionary origins
	
	Romantic origins
	 
	Puritan origins
	
	Modern origins
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201402896636)
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	When we read Nathaniel Hawthorne's books , we can clearly identify him as a:
		
	 
	Dark Romantic
	 
	Religious
	
	Transcendentalist
	
	Revolutionay
	
	Puritan
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402658478)
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	The Puritans were a group of people who were dissatisfied with...
		
	 
	the political scenario
	
	The Catholic Church
	
	themselves
	
	God
	 
	the Church of England.
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402265814)
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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?
		
	
	Given the fact that she was born and educated in England.
	 
	Given the lack of printing presses in the early years of the first American colonies.
	 
	Due to the fact that she was already very famous in England for that time.
	
	Because the author was a woman.
	
	Because her husband had prohibited its publication.
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402658479)
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	The ____________ was the only religious reference recognized by The Puritans.
		
	 
	Bible
	
	Koran
	
	Torah
	
	Gita
	
	Tipitaka
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402694532)
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	In "The fall of the House of Usher", the atmosphere of the short story is best described as:
		
	
	indifferent
	
	relaxing
	 
	gloomy
	
	hopeful
	
	happy
	
	 Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402781635)
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	The gothic inspiration in Poe´s work is expressed by
		
	 
	the gloomy side of human nature
	
	the happy stories told by the writer
	
	the modernist characteristics found in Poe´s stories
	
	the value given to the self
	
	the light side of human nature
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402265844)
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	Poe¿s verse, like that of many southerners, was very musical and strictly metrical. His best-known poem, in his own lifetime and today, is:
		
	
	The Heaven (1843)
	
	The Heaven (1845)
	 
	 The Raven (1845)
	
	The Raven (1846)
	
	The Raven (1844)
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402783940)
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	In The Fall of the House of Usher, the choice of adjectives reflect the -------- atmosphere created by Poe.
		
	 
	optimistic
	
	logical
	
	happy
	 
	gloomy
	
	soft
	
 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402265851)
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	____________ is recognized as one of Emerson¿s most important works. At the time of its anonymous publication, however, it received little attention. In fact, during his lifetime, Emerson was better known as an orator than as an essayist.
		
	 
	Union
	
	Power
	
	Nation
	 
	Nature
	
	Ocean
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402265850)
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	The Romantics tended to emphasize two aspects of nature¿ _______________. The darker Romantics, such as the Melville of Moby-Dick, stressed nature¿s destructive power. Although Ralph Emerson was sensitive to the power of the untamed American wilderness, he chose to dwell on the beauty of nature.
		
	
	beauty and slavery
	
	power and arrangement
	 
	beauty and power
	
	beauty and commitment
	
	power and construction
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402265834)
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	In the first decades of the nineteenth century, a number of technological changes in the production process with profound impact on economic and social level brought a huge growth to the United States, but it was also one of several factors that were dividing Americans into two nations, the North and the South. These changes led to:
		
	 
	The War of the Roses
	
	The Civil War
	
	The Glorious Revolution
	
	The Secession Civil War
	 
	The Industrial Revolution
	
	
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402781650)
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	Twain ´s writing clearly contributes to the movement of Realism because he
		
	 
	he represents life in an ideal way
	
	views humans as naturally sinful people capable of good and bad things equally
	
	writes romantic tales
	
	writes about ancient values
	 
	paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402783973)
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	Twain's style is based on colloquial American speech full of realism and definitely gave American writers a new way of expressing their ------------------.
		
	
	sad stories
	 
	strange tales
	
	romantic characteristics
	 
	national voice
	
	European style
	
	 Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402265838)
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	During the Age of Reform, an expanding network of roads and canals united different sections of the country. Two new inventions revolutionized transportation,they were:
		
	
	the battery and conductor
	 
	the steamboat and the lightning rod
	
	the rotator and the railroad
	
	the electricity and bifocal eyeglasses
	 
	the steamboat and the railroad
	
	
	
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402783987)
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	Moby Dick is considered to be an ambitious novel for the time. That was a documentary of life at sea and a unique metaphor of ---------------in general.
		
	 
	life
	 
	desire
	
	love
	
	aging
	
	friendship
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402266284)
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	- Despite his patrician upbringing, proud family traditions, and hard work, _____________ found himself in poverty with no college education. At 19 he went to sea. His interest in sailors¿ lives grew naturally out of his own experiences, and most of his early novels grew out of his voyages. In these we see the young wide, democratic experience and hatred of tyranny and injustice of:
		
	
	Emily Dickinson
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	 
	Henry Longfellow
	 
	Herman Melville
	
	Edgar Allan Poe
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402266293)
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	For __________________of the late 19th century, realism was not merely a literary technique: It was a way of speaking truth and exploding worn-out conventions.
		
	
	Herman Melville and other American writers
	
	Emily Dickinson and other American writers
	 
	Mark Twain and other American writers
	
	Walt Whitman and other American writers
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne and other American writers
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402266267)
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	The American Revolution, from a psychohistorical viewpoint, parallels an adolescent rebellion away from the parent-figure of England and the larger family of the British Empire. Puritanism and its Protestant offshoots may have further weakened the family by preaching that the individual¿s first responsibility was to save his or her own soul. These characteristics can be seen in the masterpieces of:
		
	
	Henry Longfellow
	 
	James Lowell
	 
	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	
	Emily Dickinson
	
	James Lowell Henry Longfellow Stephen Crane Nathaniel Hawthorne Emily Dickinson
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402896626)
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	Choose the option which best completes the following sentence: In Moby Dick, the sea represents a transitional place
		
	
	from inner space to outer space
	 
	in the expression of moral values.
	
	from men´s ideals to women´s ideals.
	 
	from an uncivilized to a civilized society
	
	in the levels of sadness characters present
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402266264)
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	In the Romantic Period - 1820 to 1860, the Romance form is dark and forbidding, indicating how difficult it is to create an identity without a stable society. Most of the Romantic heroes die in the end: All the sailors except Ishmael are drowned in ____________, and the sensitive but sinful minister Arthur Dimmesdale dies at the end of _______________.
		
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and Moby- Dick
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and The Scarlet Letter
	 
	Moby- Dick and The Scarlet Letter
	 
	Moby- Dick and Leaves of Grass
	
	Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402896622)
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	Choose the option which best completes the following sentence: In Moby Dick, Melville satirizes
		
	 
	religious values
	 
	women
	
	historical values
	
	sea stories
	
	whales
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402266287)
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	____________ has been called a ¿natural epic¿ ¿ a magnificent dramatization of the human spirit set in primitive nature ¿ because of its hunter myth, its initiation theme, its Edenic island symbolism, its positive treatment of pre-technological peoples, and its quest for rebirth.
		
	 
	Uncle Tom¿s Cabin
	
	The Woman¿s Bible
	 
	Moby-Dick
	
	Hobomok
	
	The Last of the Mohicans
	
	
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402266377)
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	______________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 / Naturalism
	
	Romanticism / Impressionism
	
	Romanticism / Modernism
	
	Romanticism / Realism
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402896648)
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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.
		
	 
	objective
	
	local
	 
	subjective
	
	special
	
	interior
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402896660)
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	In Realism,all the literary content is simple and not more important than the characters. The characters usually belong to the ---------------.
		
	
	educated classes.
	
	foreign classes.
	 
	upper classes.
	
	high society.
	 
	middle class.
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402266379)
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	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 / Realism
	
	Romanticism / Impressionism
	
	Romanticism / Modernism
	 
	Romanticism / Naturalism
	
	Romanticism / Cubism
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201401475800)
	
	
	_______________ is an artistic movement that manifests itself in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is characterized by the intention of an objective approach to reality and the interest in social issues. The ideological engagement causes often shaped and situations described are exaggerated to strengthen social denunciation.
		
	 
	Modernism
	 
	Realism
	
	Romanticism
	
	Naturalism
	
	Cubism
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402266297)
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	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
	 
	Realism
	
	Romanticism
	
	Naturalism
	
	Cubism
	
	 Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402266299)
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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.
		
	
	Over joyed
	
	Over estimated
	 
	Over populated
	 
	Over looked
	
	Over exposed
		
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402265848)
	 Fórum de Dúvidas (0)       Saiba  (0)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.
		
	
	Rationalism
	
	Humanism
	 
	Transcendentalism
	
	Realism
	
	Enlightenment
	
	
	
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402896684)
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	The Naturalism focused on the human nature, controlled by their passions and instincts, the same way the characters were directed related to their environment and heredity. Needless to say, this movement became a logical extension of ------------------.
		
	
	Transcendentalism
	
	Romanticism
	
	Puritanism
	 
	Realism
	
	Modernism
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402266301)
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	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.
		
	 
	Modernism
	
	Romanticism
	
	Cubism
	 
	Realism
	
	Naturalism
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201402896652)
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	Choose the word which best completes the following sentence; In fact, the Realism was a writing technique used to mean a subject matter. Besides, it was a reaction against the ---------------in a more systematized way.
		
	
	the Colonial literature
	
	the Revolutionary Period writers
	 
	Puritanism
	 
	The Romanticism
	
	the British literature
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402266389)
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	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:
		
	 
	Our Nig.
	
	Virginia.
	
	An American Slave.
	 
	The Age of Innocence.
	
	The Great Gatsby.
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402896672)
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	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.
		
	
	logical outline
	 
	historical data
	
	romantic pattern
	 
	scientific method
	
	moral code
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402897709)
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	Choose the word which best completes the following sentence: There is a conflict in naturalistic novels, in which man is often against nature or against himself. Consequently, the characters fight for the civilization against pressures that threaten to release the 'brute within'" (Campbell). This way, nature is indifferent to man and the universe is --------------
		
	
	crowded
	
	empty
	 
	deterministic
	 
	subjective
	
	global
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402266289)
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	___________________ 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 (1861-1864)
	 
	The U.S. Civil War (1861-1866)
	 
	The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)
	
	The U.S. Civil War (1860-1866)
	
	The U.S. Civil War (1860-1865)
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402266391)
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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.
		
	
	Babbitt
	
	The Conjure Woman
	
	The Grapes of Wrath
	
	Virginia
	 
	Old New York
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402266388)
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	_____________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.
		
	 
	Sarah Orne Jewett
	
	Harriet Jacobs
	
	Mary Wilkins Freeman
	 
	Edith Wharton
	
	Harriet Beecher Stowe
	
	
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402897743)
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	The altar of the dead is a short story by Henry James based on a fable of literally --------- significance. This work was first published in his collection entitled Terminations in 1895 after the story failed of magazine publication.
		
	
	sad stories
	 
	social events
	
	special registers
	
	historical events
	 
	life and death