Literatura Inglesa II Exercícios 1-10

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1a Questão (Ref.: 201502466595)
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	Why is The Romantic age regarded as one of the most fruitful eras in the literary history?
		
	
	Because Shakespeare was a romantic writer.
	
	Because my favorite writers are the romantic ones.
	
	Because the romantic novels used to sell a lot of books.
	 
	Because it produced most of the most renowned artists of all times in all cultural fields.
	
	Because the novels which were produced at that period of time were interesting ones.
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502419521)
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	Why was The French Revolution so important for the English people?
		
	
	Because the collapse of unfashionable eighteenth-century society and a reliable monarch gave English people reasons to fight for a better monarchy in their own country.
	
	Because as the French regime came tumbling down, a series of political and religious changes started going on in England as well as the roots for the Republican Party started being laid.
	 
	Because it was not only a crucial event considered in the context of Western history, but was also, perhaps the single most crucial influence on British intellectual, philosophical, and political life in the nineteenth century.
	
	Because the bloody events that began with the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 favored not only the English economy, as the French country had been destroyed by the war, but also the spread of democracy gave the English working-class the right to vote.
	
	Because the English history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is largely the story of England¿s involvement against French monarchy and in favor of a free French Republican country.
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502466598)
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	How would you establish a comparison between the Enlightenment thinkers and the Romantic ones?
		
	
	While the Enlightenment was a cultural movement of intellectuals, the Romanticism was a confluence of ideas and activities that took place throughout the sixteenth century which might be associated with the Age of Reason.
	
	While The enlightenment was a religious movement of the XVIII century, The Romanticism was marked by a rejection to traditional political ideas in the XVII century.
	
	While The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy, and is often thought of as part of a larger period which includes the Age of Reason, The Romantic movement was characterized by a focus on religious belief and piety and was influenced by the natural philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton.
	 
	While Enlightenment thinkers in Britain, in France and throughout Europe questioned traditional authority, the Romantics embraced the notion that humanity could be improved through rational change.
	 
	While Enlightenment thinkers valued logic, reason, and rationality, Romantics valued emotion, passion, and individuality.
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502419973)
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	The mood of Wuthering Heights is best described as¿
		
	
	cold and formal
	 
	nostalgic and sad
	
	playful and witty
	
	dark and intense
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502460360)
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	Which of the following statements was a consequence of the French Revolution?
		
	
	The British government did not allow English people to go to France anymore.
	
	The French language became the official language in England.
	 
	The public controversy which started with the positive reaction to French events in 1789 led the English people to try to change their own country into a Republic..
	 
	The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier.
	
	French books about the French Revolution started being read in English schools.
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502419966)
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	Many of Heathcliff¿s actions are motivated by his desire for¿
		
	
	wealth
	
	social status
	 
	revenge
	
	respect
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502419523)
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	During the French revolution, every important British man of letters responded warmly to the cry of the French people for ¿Liberty, Equality, Fraternity¿. Which of the following writers belonged to this group?
		
	
	Emily Bronte
	
	Oliver Goldsmith
	
	William Shakespeare.
	 
	William Wordsworth.
	
	Jonathan Swift
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201502829598)
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	How can the Romantic Age be regarded?
		
	
	As a time when only love stories were produced.
	
	As a hard time for literature in England because of the wars which were going on.
	 
	As one of the most fruitful eras in English literature.
	
	As a time when only poetry developed as a result of the romantic poets.
	
	As a time of development of detective stories.
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201502419543)
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	According to Romanticism, the idealizing woman should be¿
		
	
	ordinary girls who could play the piano.
	
	dutiful young ordinary girls.
	 
	strange and magical.
	
	rich young ladies, who could run a house very well.
	 
	seeking for a lasting relationship which, one day, would end in tragedy.
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502871277)
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	How was Nature seen by the romantic poets of the first generation?
		
	
	As the perfect place to protect innocence.
	
	As a place where the unhappy people could try to heal their pain.
	
	That being close to nature might make a woman fall in love with a man.
	
	That it was being destroyed by men.
	 
	As a place where the artists could look for isolation and inspiration.
	
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	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502419539)
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	Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual ?
		
	 
	the sonnet.
	
	the political poem.
	
	the free ¿style poem.
	 
	the lyric poem written in the first person.
	
	the ode.
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502419537)
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	Who was the first one to use the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?
		
	
	Shakespeare.
	
	Lord Byron.
	 
	English historians half a century after the period ended.
	
	Shelly
	
	Goethe.
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502466629)
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	What is the first generation of romantics characterized by?
		
	
	The literary forms these poets devise continue rethinking again the possibility of epic, heroism, and how poetic forms, and figures convey meaning. A strong faith in God was compatible to all first generation of romantics.
	
	An acceptance of the poetic tradition or, more precisely, the Neoclassical insistence on prescribed poetic norms and the fact that the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution dashed most hopes for democratic new beginnings and massive labor unrest.
	
	For Romantic authors, the expression of being a subject or a person was a task that was separable from the remarkable and disturbing era that was theirs,an era that included the British and American Revolutions, political unrest and cultural change in Britain and the global effects of European imperial expansion.
	 
	A shift in style and subject matter from the Neoclassical, who focused on reason, tradition and society. Some relevant romantic aspects included nature, dreams, feelings and childhood.
	
	All the poets who belong to the first generation were filled with a yearning for spiritual reality, and for a redefinition of the animal imagination beyond the Smithsonian precepts of order and control.
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502419546)
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	Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
		
	 
	Jane Austen.
	
	Emily Bronte.
	
	Charles Dickens.
	
	Anne Bronte.
	
	Charlotte Bronte.
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502419548)
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	How did Wordsworth describe all good poetry?
		
	
	As the expression of love relationships.
	 
	As the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
	
	As the rhythmic expression of Gothic thoughts.
	
	As the polite expression of a corrupted age.
	
	As the divine gift from God.
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201502419531)
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	The effects of the revolution abroad, the demands for a more democratic government, and a growing awareness of social injustice at home were all reflected in a new spirit that over a period of years affected every aspect of English life. How were the years characterized by this new attitude known as?
		
	
	The Age of Milton.
	
	The Elizabethan Age.
	 
	The Age of Reason.
	
	The Victorian Age.
	 
	The Age of Romanticism.
	
		1.
		In Pride and Prejudice, the novel ends with
	
	
	
	
	
	Darcy marrying Elizabeth, and Bingley marrying Miss Darcy.
	
	 
	Bingley marrying Jane, and Darcy marrying Elizabeth.
	
	
	Bingley marrying Jane, and Elizabeth marrying Wickham.
	
	
	Darcy marrying Jane.
	
	 
	Darcy marrying Elizabeth, and Wickham marrying Jane.
	
	
	
		2.
		Which were some of the characteristics of the English Romanticism?
	
	
	
	
	
	The epic heroes and nobility that populated so many centuries of poetry gave way not to middle-class protagonists but to the mundane in character. The event and the ideal of human perfectibility is put away.
	
	 
	The love of nature, a departure from reason, the focus on the individual, an element of the supernatural, among others.
	
	
	The rejection of the fabulous imaginings and idealism of the romance and classical narrative and a logical cause-and-effect and a solidity of detail in order to achieve the reader's willing suspension of disbelief.
	
	
	The individual as an object of interest, focused on the world of the gods, depicted middle-class and working men and women and factory work seemed relevant.
	
	
	Mothers and fathers engaged in politics, workers struggling to make it against an oppressive social system, the central character is often engaged in some sort of antagonist and a portrayal of human weaknesses.
	
	
	
		3.
		In the novels, the author reveals aspects of the characters which are involved in the narrrative and each of them typifies some definite quality.
How is Elizabeth Bennet, the main female character in Pride and Prejudice, depicted by Jane Austen?
	
	
	
	
	
	Besides being a gentle and kind-hearted young lady, she showed passion for being a good pianist attempting to find a valid mode of existence in society.
	
	
	She was a silly and conceited young woman, who enjoyed a life of dancing, fashions and gossips.
	
	 
	As a woman who believed in marriage as long as there was love involved in the relationship. Elizabeth stands out as a unique individual in the society she was immersed. Considering the features of the Romantic age, she represents the power of emotions over reason.
	
	
	Elizabeth Bennet was depicted as being optimistic even though she did not have the ability to laugh off her misfortunes. She had no other option than to face the reality of her life, hoping her situation might change, which reinforced the tone of the novel.
	
	
	As a woman who was able to dominate Mr. Collins and to entertain herself with Wickham just to call Mr. Darcy´s attention as she hoped to marry a rich man.
	
	
	
		4.
		The following authors are famous for their romantic prose in English literature, except
	
	
	
	
	
	Charles Lamb.
	
	
	Walter Scott.
	
	 
	Charles Dickens.
	
	 
	Jane Austen.
	
	
	Mary Shelley.
	
	
	
		5.
		Austen is famous principally for her refinement of the English novel.
Which are some of the characteristics of her novels?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Idolatry for the wild, a sharp reaction to the conventions established by the society against women rights and sensitivity to modern industrialism.
	
	
	Harmony in nature, relevance to medieval heroes and a chief concern with religious influence in life.
	
	 
	As distinct from earlier literary works, Austen portrayed society in her novels concerned with: manners, customs, and beliefs.
	
	
	The revolt against the simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people.
	
	
	Individual consciousness and perception became the primary concern of representation as well as the sensational use of horrors.
	
	
	
		6.
		Although Jane Austen´s novels did not prove especially popular in her own days, one of her novels, Emma, was dedicated to an admirer of her work, The Prince Regent.
 What would you say about Jane Austen´s novels?
	
	
	
	
	
	She was committed with a strong reaction to puritanism, she distrusted innovation and invention and there is a widespread acceptance of classical literature.
	
	
	She used conventional situations as well as melodic phrases to keep the interest of the reader. There is always the presence of moral which were typical of the time she lived, Elizabethan Age.
	
	
	Their success depends partly on the end of the stories and partly upon her spectacular style of writing, in which comic aspects as well as tragic ones play an important role on stage.
	
	
	She provides the reader with an emphasis on biological determinism, and in the environmental forces and internal stresses that drive the individuals to act the way they do.
	
	 
	They already bear some of the characteristics of the movement that was to follow Romanticism, Realism, because of the way she describes the society she was immersed in.
	
	
	
		7.
		What is Elizabeth Bennet ´s point of view about marriage?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Considering the features of the Romantic age, Elizabeth represents the power of reason over emotion so her concern about getting married was based on the reality of the world she was immersed in.
	
	
	In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet is concerned with finding herself a proper husband who ought to have enough money so as to have a better life in future.
	
	
	Throughout the novel, Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth declares her belief in love at first sight and on the need for women to get married in order to survive.
	
	 
	Elizabeth, the main character of Pride and Prejudice is a woman who believes in marriage as long as there is love involved in the relationship.
	
	
	Elizabeth understood the need of getting married for women at the time she lived as a way of helping support the family.
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		8.
		Who wrote Frankenstein?Mary Shelly.
	
	
	Jane Austen.
	
	
	Charles Lamb.
	
	
	Sir Walter Scott.
	
	
	Willian Shakespeare.
		
		During the second half of the nineteenth century, the paradigm in novel writing was no longer the Romantic idealism of the earlier part of the century but a new approach to character and subject matter, a school of thought which later came to be known as Realism. Which of the following ideas DOES NOT fit into Realism?
	
	
	
	
	
	Realism is exactly what it sounds to be: the attention to detail and an effort to portray the true nature of reality in a way that novelists had never attempted before.
	
	 
	Realist works described the life of rich people in situations that arose in everyday life.
	
	
	Realists rebelled against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement.
	
	
	Realism is a reaction against Romanticism. Realistic writers rebelled against the emotional writing of the Romantics and started a movement in search of a more realistic portrait of life.
	
	
	It was believed that the function of the novels was simply to report what happened, without any comment or judgment.
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		2.
		What is the term The Industrial Revolution associated with in England?
	
	
	
	
	
	The most important feature of the revolution in Britain is associated with the declining number of people who were expected to come to the rapidly expanding urban areas to provide much of the labour-force for the new manufacturing industries.
	
	
	The term is associated with the fight for power England went through against the U.S.A.
	
	
	The term Industrial Revolution is associated with the use of iron, steel and aluminum as growing characteristics in English dressing- style industry.
	
	 
	Broadly speaking, The industrial revolution defines the transformation of Britain from a predominantly rural and agrarian society to an increasingly urban one based on manufacturing and industry, new transportation and communication systems and the application of scientific principles to industry among others.
	
	
	The term the Industrial Revolution improved farming techniques, which generated both increased agricultural production and growing prosperity even for the poor people all over the country so the term is associated with an agricultural revolution.
	
	
	
		3.
		The record of marriage the person reads to stop the wedding is from how many years back?
	
	
	
	
	
	Five.
	
	
	Fifteen.
	
	 
	Twenty.
	
	 
	Ten.
	
	
	
		4.
		Which were some of the major evolutions in learning with the advent of the Industrial Revolution?
	
	
	
	
	
	They finally understood that research was important for the development of politics in England.
	
	 
	As the printing machine was invented, books became more easily available.
	
	
	They trusted in a political change in order to have a better educational system.
	
	
	Thinkers of this era were united under a common objective: religious reform at schools.
	
	 
	Technological improvements led to the development of science in the modern sense.
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		5.
		Which of the following statements expresses the right point of view?
	
	
	
	
	
	Romanticism was a time of trouble, as the many discoveries of science led to a crisis of faith in God.
	
	 
	Romanticism echoed in changes in politics while realism was more concerned with the artists and their productivity.
	
	 
	While in the Enlightenment the artist was seen as the voice of reason, in the Romanticism, the artist was seen as a visionary.
	
	
	Subjectivity was an Enlightenment trait while objectivity was a characteristic of the Romanticism.
	
	
	Romanticism often reflected the changes brought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions which affected the lives of the common man.
	
	
	
		6.
		After supper on the night before they are to be married, how does Mr. Rochester respond when Jane asks him if he feels calm and happy? (from Chapter XXV)
	
	
	
	
	
	Calm, no. And unhappy.
	
	
	Calm, yes. But unhappy
	
	
	Calm, no. But happy.
	
	 
	Calm, yes. And happy.
	
	
	
		7.
		Why did populations migrate from rural areas into urban communities during the industrial revolution?
	
	
	
	
	
	As a consequence of the fact that factories were being built in the countryside.
	
	
	Because as there were fewer people reaching working age, the industries were offering better living conditions as they paid much better salaries.
	
	
	Because industries paid lower salaries than they were used to receiving in the farms.
	
	 
	In search of employment.
	
	
	For religious reasons. The rural churches were demanding too much of the population.
	
	
	
		8.
		Catherine married . n
	
	
	
	
	 
	Edward Lando
	
	
	Edward Miles
	
	
	Ethan Lockwood
	
	
	Edward Stone
	
	
	Edgar Linton
		
		Many of Heathcliff´s actions are motivated by his desire for
	
	
	
	
	
	lust
	
	
	respect
	
	 
	revenge
	
	
	social status
	
	
	wealth
	
	
	
		2.
		What can we say about the Bronte novels?
	
	
	
	
	 
	As women were not supposed to feel passion at the time the Bronte sisters lived, their novels became a direct assault on Victorian morality.
	
	
	The Bronte novels were committed with showing the reader women could be respected if they decided to be writers.
	
	
	As one of the major themes in their novels was persuasion, the writers were pretty much concerned with how to persuade people to support their point of view.
	
	
	The overcoming resistance to realism turned their novels into best sellers.
	
	
	Their novels were criticized because the Bronte novels did not portray the reality of life in London in the eighteenth century.
	
	
	
		3.
		How can the Bronte´s novels be seen?
	
	
	
	
	
	As political novels.
	
	
	As post-war novels, they are committed in showing the reader the difficulties people faced after wars.
	
	
	As traditional novels which represent the seventeenth century.
	
	 
	As expressions of early feminism.
	
	
	As romantic novels in which the main characters die at the end of the novels.
	
	
	
		4.
		Which difficulties did women in Victorian England have to face?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Dependence on their fathers and husbands for the rest of their lives, being considered incompetent for jobs at good schools, being responsible for educating their own children since they would only go to school at the age of twelve.
	
	
	Not being able to find jobs in factories, low salaries in all sorts of jobs, except if they were housekeepers and being rejected by society if their husbands did not have enough money.
	
	
	Finding it hard to deal with money matters, being responsible for the servants in a house and not being allowed to learn how to read and write.
	
	
	The position of the governess was not given the proper value, the importance of work for women was seen as the chance they had to fulfill their potential and the right to make their own options as far as marriage was concerned.
	
	 
	Few employment opportunities, dependence on men for support, and social expectations.
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		5.
		In which of the following novels we find the following features: A woman´s desperate struggle to attain her identity in the mist of temptation, isolation, and impossible oddsis portrayed. She possesses a strong soul but she must fight not only against the forces of passion and reason within herself, but the will of others which were constantly imposed on her.
	
	
	
	
	
	Sons and lovers.
	
	
	Ivanhoe.
	
	 
	Jane Eyre.
	
	
	Animal Farm.
	
	
	Oliver Twist.
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		6.
		Who was Heathcliff in the novel Wuthering Heights?
	
	
	
	
	 
	He was an orphan who ws adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, owner of Wuthering Heights.
	
	
	He was Mr. Earnshaw ´s son.
	
	
	He was a lawyer who married Catherine.
	
	
	He was a doctor who saved Catherine´s life when she got terribly ill.
	
	
	He was the mayor of the area where the story takes place.
	
	
	
		7.
		When Jane first lays her eyes on the injured Mr. Rochester, she compares him to what kind of animal?
	
	
	
	
	
	A horse.
	
	 
	An eagle.
	
	
	A dog.
	
	 
	A snake.
	
	
	
		8.
		Who presents the following characteristics in the novel? He/she is an orphan and a victim. He/She is an honest character, not evil, and he/she is what he/she was trained to be. He/She was not taught love and says so quite honestly. Yet underneath this rigid unemotional surface, the passion and emotional fury are present.
	
	
	
	
	
	Miss Havisham
	
	
	Pip
	
	 
	Jaggers
	
	 
	Estella
	
	
	Joe
	
	
		1.
		Which alternative DOES NOT represent a common concerns of modernism:
	
	
	
	
	
	the breaking down of social norms,
	
	
	rejection of standard social ideas, traditional thoughts and expectations,
	
	
	rejection of religion and anger against the effects of the World Wars.
	
	 
	the reinforcement of human incapacity of live without religion and tradition.
	
	 
	tendency to reject history, social systems, and emphasize alienation in modern urban and industrial societies.
	
	
	
		2.
		Whch one of the characteristics DOES NOT belong to Modernism:
	
	
	
	
	
	Juxtaposition, irony, comparisons and satire are important elements found in modernist writing.
	
	
	Modernist authors use impressionism and other devices to emphasize the subjectivity of reality.
	
	
	Modernist authors also make use of discontinuous narratives and fragmented plot structures.
	
	 
	Modernist works are not reflexive and draw attention to their own role as creators.
	
	
	Modernist authors see omniscient narration and fixed narrative points of view as ways of providing a false sense of objectivity.
	
	
	
		3.
		Which one of the alternatives below DOES NOT represent a thematic characteristic in Modernism?
	
	
	
	
	
	The goal of modernist literature was not to focus on one particular audience in a formal way.
	
	
	Modernist writing can seem frustrating and difficult to understand, For the first-time reader
	
	 
	The plot, characters and themes of the text are always presented in a linear way.
	
	
	Modernist literature often opposed to, or gave an alternative opinion on, a social concept.
	
	 
	The use of a fragmented style and a lack of conciseness.
	
	
	
		4.
		1901-1910 - Edwardian Period. This is one of the periods in which English Modernism is divided. Choose the alternative that DOES NOT represent one of its characteristics:
	
	
	
	
	
	Edward was the leader of a fashionable elite that set a style influenced by the art and fashion of Continental Europe.
	
	
	The Edwardian period includes the years up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War I in 1914
	
	 
	The Edwardian period is characterized by a quite unsophisticated court and a rude and unenlightened king.
	
	
	The Edwardian period is sometimes extended beyond Edward's death in 1910.
	
	
	It corresponds to the period covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910.
	
	
	
		5.
		The Modern Period can be divided into three major moments. Choose tha alternative that CORRECTLY represents them.
	
	
	
	
	
	1901-1910 - Einstein Period, 1910-1914 - Georgian period, 1914-1945 - Modern period
	
	
	1901-1910 -Modern period, 1910-1914 - Georgian period, 1914-1945 - Edwardian Period
	
	
	1901-1910 - Georgian period, 1910-1914 - Edwardian Period, 1914-1945 - Modern period
	
	 
	1901-1910 - Edwardian Period, 1910-1914 - Georgian period, 1914-1945 - Modern period
	
	
	1901-1910 - Edwardian Period, 1910-1914 - Victorian period, 1914-1945 - Modern period
	
	
	
		6.
		Which of the following assertions does not fit into the novel Mrs. Dalloway?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Clarissa's party in the evening is not a success due to Septimus' suicide at the party.
	
	 
	Mrs. Dalloway departs from conventional form in a few ways. There are some section breaks, but in general the perspective of the story floats from one character to the next without any divisions.
	
	
	In the initial lines of the book, Clarissa goes around London in the morning, getting ready for a party she will be hosting that evening.
	
	
	Septimus Warren Smith is a veteran of World War I who suffers from traumatic stress and spends his day in the park with his wife Lucrezia.
	
	
	It was a novel published in 1925 and which details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England.
	
	
	
		7.
		Modernism was the period in British Literature which came immediately after Realism. Thinking about the two literary movements, and comparing them, choose the alternative that is CORRECT
	
	
	
	
	
	As it would be expected, it came as a reaction against the Realists and as a way of allowing for individuals to express themselves at a time art was supposed to be an idealization.
	
	 
	As it would be expected, it came to reinforce Realism and as a way of allowing for individuals to express themselves at a time art was supposed to be a true picture of reality.
	
	
	Surprisingly, it came as a reaction against the Romantics and as a way of allowing for individuals to express themselves at a time art was supposed to be a true picture of reality.
	
	
	As it would be expected, it came as a reaction pro Classicism and as a way of allowing for individuals to express themselves at a time art was supposed to be a true picture of reality.
	
	 
	As it would be expected, it came as a reaction against the Realists and as a way of allowing for individuals to express themselves at a time art was supposed to be a true picture of reality.
	
	
	
		8.
		Which of the following comments is applicable to Brave New World?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Brave New World is a novel of ideas, the characters and plot are secondary, even simplistic. The novel is best appreciated as an ironic commentary on contemporary values.
	
	
	Brave New World is a Gothic novel in which fragments of history, aphorisms of the government are mixed up with the fantastic world.
	
	
	Mr. Huxley´s habit of avoiding deadly contexts is in earnest in Brave New World, published in 1920s.
	
	
	Happiness and virtue are the most outstanding characteristics of the novel, published in the 1930s.
	
	
	Aldous Huxley expressed a certain regret that he had written the book because the love story associated with World War I was not such a great success.
	
	
	
		1.
		What was James Joyce famous for?
	
	
	
	
	
	Joyce gave more importance to the action and less importance to the psychological elements of the characters.
	
	 
	He was well known for his literaryinnovation such as a strictly focused narrative and indirect style.
	
	
	James Joyce made use of the stream of consciousness technique as well as his fellow companion D.H. Lawrence.
	
	
	Joyce made use of epiphany in his novels so as to call the readers´ attention of the importance of men having pets.
	
	
	Joyce was well known for his experimental use of language, symbolic parallels and as being an author who hardly ever used monologues.
	
	
	
		2.
		What is one of the themes in the novel Jane Eyre?
	
	
	
	
	 
	The novel, both in its own time and in ours, has seemed to express woman's rebellion against the limitations of her life.
	
	 
	The difficulties women had to go through because of the Industrial Revolution.
	
	
	The novel questions the role of women in Elizabethan society.
	
	
	The gothic novel is based on the theme of revenge which the author had experienced as a young child.
	
	
	The love affair between a woman and a cousin of hers.
	
	
	
		3.
		Why is Son and Lovers (1913), by D.H. Lawrence, such a success until nowadays?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Because it is as fresh and rewarding to read today as a contemporary novel.
	
	
	Because as gothic novels are much in fashion nowadays, it attracts a great number of readers.
	
	
	Because it is related to the epic for its heroic figures.
	
	
	Because, as a social and political novel, it doesn¿t appeal to young readers.
	
	
	Because ballads have proliferated vastly in the course of time.
	
	
	
		4.
		What is evident in Charlotte Brönte's novel, Jane Eyre?
	
	
	
	
	
	The importance of the Industrial Revolution in the novel, Jane Eyre.
	
	
	The importance of the Gothic style for the development of the characters in the novel.
	
	
	That, by depicting the religious lives of the main characters, Charlotte is able to tell the reader about the importance of leading a moral life.
	
	
	The world of education was a way for a better life for women who wanted to attend university.
	
	 
	The social injustices suffered by XIX century women are evident in all her work.
	
	
	
		5.
		Which were the three major characteristics in James Joyce¿s works?
	
	
	
	
	
	The use of epithets, erotic monologue and figurative language.
	
	
	Social criticism, the stream of consciousness and depraved nature.
	
	
	The spirit of reform, the value of nature and sustained narrative.
	
	
	The interior monologue, political satire and short story form.
	
	 
	The stream of consciousness, the interior monologue and the epiphany.
	
	
	
		6.
		What does Jane Eyre¿s behaviour as a child , living in her uncle's house, show the reader?
	
	
	
	
	 
	It shows that Jane is often being placed in a position of trying to behave in a way that will satisfy other people.
	
	
	It shows Rochester is going to have a hard time to control Jane.
	
	
	It explains Jane¿s determination in finding a husband.
	
	
	It shows Jane is going to be submissive for the rest of the novel.
	
	
	It shows Jane is not fit to be a governess since she is not able to control herself.
		.
		The assertives below fit into Orwell´s characteristics, except
	
	
	
	
	
	Orwell began supporting himself by writing book reviews for the New English Weekly until 1940.
	
	
	Contemporary readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
	
	
	During most of his career Orwell was best known for his journalism, both in the British press and in books about it.
	
	 
	Orwell´s prophetic vision of the results of totalitarianism in America is present in all the novels he wrote.
	
	 
	George Orwell is the pseudonym of Eric Blair.
	
	
	
		2.
		Which was one of Orwell´s contribution to English literature?
	
	
	
	
	
	He was never recognized when he was alive, but after his death he turned out to be the best  twentieth century poet.
	
	
	He was a writer during World War I and helped his country with his literary articles about  the war.
	
	 
	A number of words and phrases that Orwell coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four have entered the standard vocabulary, such as "memory hole," "Big Brother," "Room 101," "doublethink," "thought police," and "newspeak."
	
	
	He was the first English writer to have his books translated into other languages.  
	
	
	By publishing some romantic novels which were highly appreciated by the readers, he called the attention of foreigners to English literature.
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		3.
		Who is the protagonist in the novel 1984 ?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Winston Smith.
	
	
	O'Brien.
	
	
	Syme.
	
	
	Mr. Charrington.
	
	 
	Big Brother.
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		4.
		Marriage between Catherine and Heathcliff would have been unlikely because they are¿
	
	
	
	
	 
	in love with each other
	
	
	too far apart in age
	
	
	from very different social classes
	
	
	too closely related to each other
	
	
	
		5.
		How would you describe Nelly Dean¿s manner of speaking?
	
	
	
	
	
	Informal and completely objective
	
	 
	Detailed and somewhat judgmental
	
	 
	Formal and extremely brief
	
	
	Vague and highly opinionated
	
	
	
		6.
		Although Orwell's experience shaped him, he felt that there were motifs for writing. Choose the one which does not fit into Orwell's point of view.
	
	
	
	
	
	Egoism.
	
	
	Aesthetic enthusiasm.
	
	 
	Love.
	
	
	Historical impulse.
	
	
	Political purpose.
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		7.
		Which of the following writers presents the following characteristics:
He/She is the master of social novelists, is increasingly critical as his/her fiction comes closer and closer to reality.
	
	
	
	
	
	Emily Brönte
	
	
	Walter Scott
	
	 
	Charles Dickens
	
	
	Lord Byron
	
	
	Jane Austen
	
	
	
		8.
		The Big Brother is a very famous name nowadays, but some people do not have any idea that its origin started with Orwell's novel 1984.
What can't be associated to The Big Brother in 1984?
	
	
	
	
	
	Tyranny.
	
	
	Intense cult of personality.
	
	
	Public mind control.
	
	 
	Beloved leader.
	
	
	Quasi-divine Party leader.
		1.
		Which of the following IS NOT a characteristic of post-modernism?
	
	
	
	
	
	It rejects to conform to popular taste and proposes a combination of heterogeneous elements, making it cater to a more sophisticated reader.
	
	
	Post-Modernism starts after World War II.
	
	 
	It stressed love and positivism, and a faith in the power of the artist to show reality as it was.
	
	 
	It differs from Modernism by blurring the conventional boundary between "high" and "low" culture, by a completely loosened structure in both time and space, and by multiple openings rather than a closure in itself.
	
	
	It was set in the post-1950s, a time marked by the Cold War and the excesses of consumption.
	
	
	
		2.
		Post-modernism was characterized by an attempt to establish transhistorical or transcultural validity, it claims that search for reality is pointless, as the "real" is conditioned by time, place, race, class, gender, and sexuality.
As a consequence of that ...
	
	
	
	
	
	counter culture and consumer culture did notinterfere in the perception of new authors.
	
	
	insecurity of Cold War Era after World War I was a reality.
	
	 
	there is no knowledge or experience that is superior or inferior to another.
	
	 
	post-modernism had a huge impact on poetry.
	
	
	having started in the first half of the twentieth century, it was largely influenced by a number of events that marked this period.
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		3.
		It is a well-known fact that there are common features and techniques which are typical of post-modernism. Which of the following DOES NOT belong to these groups?
	
	
	
	
	
	    Irony.
	
	 
	   Linear narratives.
	
	
	    Metafiction.
	
	
	Black humor.
	
	
	    Intertextuality.
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		4.
		It is the literary work marked by the use of still, sharply defined, smoothly painted images of figures and objects depicted in a surrealistic manner. The themes and subjects are often imaginary, somewhat fantastic and with a certain dream-like quality. Some of the characteristic features of this kind of fiction are the mingling and juxtaposition of the realistic and the fantastic or bizarre, skillful time shifts, labyrinthine narratives and plots, miscellaneous use of dreams, myths and fairy stories, expressionistic and even surrealistic description, the element of surprise or abrupt shock, the horrific and the inexplicable. - The text is describing the characteristics of....
	
	
	
	
	 
	Magic Realism
	
	
	Gothic Lit
	
	 
	Metafiction
	
	
	Technoculture
	
	
	Trasncendentalism
	
	
	
		5.
		Linton and Cathy marry because¿
	
	
	
	
	
	it is Edgar¿s dying request
	
	 
	they hope to end a family feud
	
	 
	they fall deeply in love from afar
	
	
	Heathcliff forces them to marry
	
	
	
		6.
		The action of the novel takes place over the course of¿
	
	
	
	
	
	about one year
	
	 
	about ten years
	
	
	about thirty years
	
	
	about five years
	
	
	
		7.
		Hareton most closely resembles¿
	
	
	
	
	
	his aunt, Catherine
	
	 
	his cousin, Linton
	
	
	Nelly Dean
	
	 
	his father, Hindley
	
	
	
		8.
		Post-modernism is the name given to the literary movement following Modernism.
Which of the following may be associated with it?
	
	
	
	
	
	It occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly the end of World War II.
	
	 
	It rejects to conform to popular taste and proposes a combination of heterogeneous elements, making it cater to a more sophisticated reader.
	
	
	Some of its representatives include Emily and Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens.
	
	
	The ideologies and events of the French Revolution laid the background from this
literary movement.
	
	 
	It stressed reason and positivism, and a faith in the power of the artist to show reality as it was.
	
		1.
		What does stream of consciousness mean?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Stream of consciousness has its origins in the late 18th century with Jane Austen, who chose this style of writing to call the readers¿ attention to women¿s rights
	
	 
	It's a style of writing evolved by authors at the beginning of the 20th century to express in words the flow of a character's thoughts and feelings.
	
	
	With the birth of psychology with Freud, characters like Septimus started being introduced in the novels. Stream of consciousness deals with the problems shell-shocked war veterans had when they came back home from wars.
	
	
	Stream of consciousness is an expository device, used in a narrative to show the mental problems some characters have
	
	
	Stream of consciousness deals with the importance of social classes in a stratified society.
	
	
	
		2.
		Who was Mr. Kenneth?
	
	
	
	
	
	the priest
	
	 
	the tutor
	
	
	the lawyer
	
	
	the maid
	
	 
	the doctor
	
	
	
		3.
		What facets of the English political system does Virginia Woolf criticize in Mrs. Dalloway?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Woolf is critical of the new English politics because it may be identified as a nationalconservatism¿.Inthecourseofthenovel,thephrasethe war is over¿ is seen as confirmation of the complacency of the post-war England
	
	
	Woolf praises the support English politics gave the shell-shocked war veterans, like Septimus
	
	
	Woolf criticizes the post-war political attitude of giving foreigners the same sort of medical assistance they would give the native Englishmen
	
	
	Woolf criticizes the taxes which were raised in order to support World War II.
	
	 
	Woolf is critical of the lack of assistance politics gave the women whose husbands had been killed in the war
	
	
	
		4.
		Which is one of the characteristics a reader can find in Mrs Dalloway ?
	
	
	
	
	
	The main female character is concerned with governmental affairs.
	
	 
	The inner world of Elizabeth is well discussed in the novel.
	
	 
	It takes place on a specific day.
	
	
	It is a female-centred narrative mainly concerned with life after World War II.
	
	
	It is a social narrative in which Woolf criticizes life in the Victorian Age
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		5.
		As the sisters discuss St. John's leaving England the following year, how does St. John respond to Mary's question about Rosamond Oliver?
	
	
	
	
	
	He tells them she is also leaving the country.
	
	 
	He tells them he is about to propose to her.
	
	
	He tells them she is to be married to Mr. Granby.
	
	
	He tells them she is to be married to Mr. Rochester.
	
	
	
		6.
		Critic Bernard Blackstone wrote that "Mrs. Dalloway is an experiment with time." What is the relevance of  'time' in the novel?
	
	
	
	
	
	Woolf¿s style adds emphasis to her idea that past time is more relevant than the future one
	
	
	It makes the reader aware of the fact that we ought to fear time as it leads us to old age
	
	
	Mental time progresses steadily forward, like the clock time we follow, so we should all value the present time
	
	 
	Time is seen as a mingling of present experience and memory - time that is the present but also the past; linear but sporadic; eternal but vanishing
	
	
	Woolf presents a time that does not appeal to the human spirit
	
	
	
		7.
		When Mr. Rochester greets Jane upon her return from Thornfield and asks if she can make him handsome, she tells him that _______has power beyond beauty. (from Chapter XXII)
	
	
	
	
	 
	Sternness.
	
	
	Loneliness.
	
	
	Intelligence.
	
	 
	Happiness.
	
	
	
		8.
		20) What is the first sentence of the final chapter of "Jane Eyre?")
	
	
	
	
	
	Reader, we married.
	
	 
	Reader, I eloped with him.
	
	
	Reader, I married him.
	
	
	Reader, we eloped.