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2a Questão (Ref.: 201402694926)
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	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
	 
	philosopher and college professor
	
	a psychiatrist and a philosopher
	 
	a philosopher and theologian
	
	a professor and a theologian
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402266384)
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	Henry James once wrote that art, especially literary art, ¿makes life, makes interest, makes importance.¿ James¿s fiction and criticism is the most highly conscious, sophisticated, and difficult of its era. With Twain, James is generally ranked as the greatest American novelist of the:
		
	
	second half of the18th century.
	 
	first half of the19th century.
	
	second half of the17th century.
	
	first half of the17th century.
	 
	second half of the19th century.
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402897712)
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	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.
		
	
	Puritan values
	 
	Revolutionary literature
	 
	the Modern times
	
	Classical literature
	
	the Ancient times
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402787355)
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	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.
		
	
	style
	 
	minds
	
	bodies
	
	historical records
	
	actions
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402897729)
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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 ---------------
		
	
	reading
	
	fighting
	
	listening
	 
	writing
	 
	telling
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201402897750)
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	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
	
	happy
	
	simple
	 
	difficult
	
	sad
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402694981)
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	Considering American Literature timeline, writer Edith Wharton wrote in the:
		
	
	20th Century
	 
	21st Century
	
	17th Century
	
	18th Century
	 
	19th Century
	
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	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402695219)
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	______________________ is one of Wharton's most famous works.
		
	
	The Altar of the Dead
	
	City of Glass
	 
	Hucky Finn
	
	Ghosts
	 
	The age of innocence
	
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	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402695179)
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	All characteristics bellow can be applied to Edith Wharton's personality, EXCEPT for:
		
	
	curious
	 
	charming
	
	thinker
	 
	energetic
	
	interesting
	
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	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402787370)
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	The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton, a realist American writer, was published in-------and won the Pulitzer Prize.
		
	
	1700
	
	1806
	 
	1666
	 
	1920
	
	2004
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402697047)
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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
	 
	Pulitzer Prize
	 
	America Award
	
	Franz Kafka Prize
	
	American Book Awards
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402787367)
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	The Age of Innocence writen by Edith Wharton is a brilliant, sharply ironic portrayal of the changing scene of fashionable American life in--------
		
	
	Boston
	 
	Chicago
	
	Italy
	 
	Old New York
	
	London
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402697059)
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	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 III is true
	 
	Only statements I and III are true
	 
	All three statements are true
	
	Only statement I is true
	
	Only statement II and III are true
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402695384)
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	All the following are Auster's works EXCEPT for....
		
	 
	The City of glass
	
	New York trilogy
	
	Ghosts
	
	The locked room
	 
	The Other Two
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402787429)
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	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.
		
	
	conflicts
	 
	themes
	
	settings
	
	literary criticism
	
	life
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402266397)
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	In the options below, choose what are novels from Toni Morrison:
		
	
	Amanda / The Woman Warrior
	
	Beloved / The Color Purple
	 
	Beloved / Amanda
	
	The woman Warrior / The Color Purple
	
	Song of Solomon / The Color Purple
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402787402)
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	Paul Auster searched for ---------and personal meaning in his works.
		
	
	money
	 
	happiness
	
	republican distinctions
	 
	identity
	
	traditional values
	
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	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402787413)
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	Auster gained recognition for a series of three loosely connected detective stories published collectively as---------------.
		
	
	The House of Mirth
	 
	A streetcar named Desire
	
	Death of a salesman
	 
	The New York Trilogy
	
	The old man and the sea
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402787446)
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	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.
		
	 
	postmodern
	 
	romantic
	
	puritantranscendental
	
	realist
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402266243)
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	Her best poems have no fat; many mock current sentimentality, and some are even heretical. She sometimes shows a terrifying existential awareness. Like Poe, she explores the dark and hidden part of the mind, dramatizing death and the grave. Yet she also celebrated simple objects ¿ a flower, a bee. She is
		
	
	Susanna Rowson
	
	Mercy Otis Warren
	
	Hannah Foster
	
	Judith Sargent Murray
	 
	Emily Dickinson
	 9a Questão (Ref.: 201402896633)
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	Choose the option which best completes the following sentence:The majority of Hawthorne's work focuses on New England, based on moral values with
		
	
	modern themes
	 
	a puritan inspiration
	
	a logical planning
	
	strange locations
	
	french ideals
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201401475778)
	
	
	_________________was a daring and even subversive book. It treated issues that were usually suppressed in 19thcentury America, such as the impact of the new, liberating democratic experience on individual behavior, especially on sexual and religious freedom.
		
	 
	The Scarlet Letter
	
	The Pit and the Pendulum
	
	A Fable for Critics
	
	The Raven
	
	Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201401475350)
	
	
	During the Age of Reform, an expanding network of roads and canals united different sections of the country. Two new inventionsrevolutionizedtransportation, theywere:
		
	
	the electricity and bifocal eyeglasses
	
	the steamboat and the lightning rod
	 
	the steamboat 0and the railroad
	
	the rotator and the railroad
	
	The battery and conductor
	1a Questão (Ref.: 201401475354)
	
	
	There was a dark underside to American Romanticism. It took a variety of forms, including a fascination with disease, madness, death, evil, the supernatural, and the destructive aspects of nature. It was a characteristic of:
		
	 
	The Power of darkness
	
	The Power of exactness
	 
	The danger of darkness
	
	The Power of lightness
	
	The Power of clearness
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201401996871)
	
	
	Moby Dick was a novel that could show the variety of ------------in the United States.
		
	
	shops
	 
	races
	 
	navigationmaps
	
	religions
	
	ships
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201401991181)
	
	
	In Huckleberry Finn, the author questioned
		
	
	the foolish idea of Tom helping Jim to reach freedom.
	
	the happy life people lived by the Mississipi river
	
	the good life conditions slaves had
	 
	the cooperation between the white people and slaves
	 
	the morality of white southerners
	1a Questão (Ref.: 201401475750)
	
	
	"_______________ 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."
		
	
	Rationalism
	
	Humanism
	
	Enlightenment
	 
	Optimism
	
	Liberalism
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201401475353)
	
	
	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 characteristicof:
		
	 
	Kinship with Nature
	
	Kinship with Reality
	
	Aversionto Humanism
	 
	Aversionto Nature
	
	Kinship with Enlightenment
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402106214)
	
	
	The term Naturalism was invented by-------------- mainly to impress the reading public that something updated was about to occur in his fiction.
		
	
	Benjamin Franklin
	 
	Emile Zola
	 
	Sinclair Lewis
	
	Anne Bradstreet
	
	Jean Paul Sartre
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402107217)
	
	
	Choose the option which does not describe the Naturalism:
		
	
	Observation of a darker side of life.
	
	Characters from lower socioeconomic class;
	 
	Nature as a source of intuition
	 
	Character determined by heredity;
	
	Detached method of narration;
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201401475349)
	
	
	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 provide better care for the mentally ill, and improve prisons and to maintain slavery.
	 
	The organizations to end slavery, stop drunkenness, 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 secure women¿srights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and close prisons.
	
	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.
	 5a Questão(Ref.: 201401646023)
	Who was the first published poet in America¿a remarkable accomplishment considering that writing was thought improper for a woman at that time? 
	
	Anne Woodbridge 
	
	Anne Bradstreet 
	
	Anne Wordsworth 
	
	Anne Broadstock 
	
	Anne Bradford 
	 6a Questão(Ref.: 201401646024)
	The title page of Anne Bradstreet's first book assures readers that she did not shirk her responsibilities as a wife and mother in order to write poetry. The poems were said to be:
	
	" the history of hurricane survivors" 
	
	" The formation of alliances by the Native Americans against the settlers"
	
	¿the fruit of some few hours, curtailed from sleep and other refreshments.¿
	
	" the deep cultural conflict between New England¿s Native American and European inhabitants" 
	
	" a realistic, if biased, account of Native Americans" 
	 4a Questão(Ref.: 201401646057)
	In literature the word Gothic applies to works with a brooding atmosphere that emphasize the unknown and inspire fear. Gothic novels typically feature wild and remote settings, such as: 
	
	hunting castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or mysterious events. 
	
	haunted castles or wind-blasted mills, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes. 
	
	big chapels and colourful gardens
	
	haunted castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or mysterious events. 
	
	hunting castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes. 
	 8a Questão(Ref.: 201401646037)
	Some of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson's ideas about independence were not new. According to athe ideas of an English philosopher theory of ¿natural law,¿ human beings are ¿by nature free, equal and independent¿. These ideas belonged to: 
	
	Adam Smith 
	
	Ralph Waldo Emerson 
	
	John Locke
	
	Thomas Paine 
	
	Philip Freneau 
	 7a Questão(Ref.: 201401646066)
	English literature from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets, Chaucer and Spenser and Shakespeare and Milton included, breathes no quite fresh and in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting:
	
	Greece and London. 
	
	Greece and Rome. 
	
	Greece and Italy. 
	
	Rome and Venice. 
	
	. Rome and Paris. 
	7a Questão(Ref.: 201401646503)
	As industrialization grew, so did alienation. Characteristic American novels of the period " ___________ "  depict the damage of economic forces and alienation on theweak or vulnerable individual. 
	
	Theodore Dreiser¿s, An American Tragedy and Harriet Wilson, Our Nig 
	
	Jack London¿s, Martin Eden and Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 
	
	Stephen Crane¿s, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Jack London¿s, Martin Eden 
	
	Theodore Dreiser¿s, An American Tragedy and Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 
	
	Stephen Crane¿s, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Harriet Wilson, Our Nig 
	8a Questão(Ref.: 201402075111)
	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¿.
	
	carpe diem
	
	persona non grata
	
	vere-care
	
	status quo
	
	sine qua non
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402268153)
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	Many Romantics were drawn to the nonrational side of human nature, such as the emotions, imagination, intuition¿even evil and insanity. They were also fascinated by remote periods of history and exotic places. All these interests came together in the type of writing known as:
		
	 
	Epic literature
	 
	Gothic literature
	
	Classical Literature
	
	Lyric literature
	
	Critical literature
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402268614)
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	____________ was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.
		
	 
	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	
	Emily Dickinson
	
	Henry Longfellow
	
	James Lowell
	 
	Stephen Crane
		Practical yet idealistic, hard-working and enormously successful, he recorded his early life in his famous Autobiography. He was the first great self-made man in America, a poor democrat born in an aristocratic age that his fine example helped to liberalize. His name is:
	
	
	
	
	
	Thomas Jefferson
	
	 
	Thomas Paine
	
	 
	Benjamin Franklin
	
	
	Richard Saunders
	
	
	Noah Webster
		6.
		Walt Whitman¿s greatness is visible in many of his poems, among them:
	
	
	
	
	
	"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking¿ and "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
	
	 
	¿Crossing Brooklyn Ferry¿ and ¿Leaves of Grass"
	
	
	¿When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom¿d¿ and ¿Evangeline¿
	
	
	¿Crossing Brooklyn Ferry¿ and ¿The Chambered Nautilus¿
	
	
	¿Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking¿ and "A Fable for Critics"