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1.
		Anne Bradstreet was a woman who wrote -------------in the 17th century. She represented the heart of American women at that time.
	
	
	
	
	 
	fairy tales
	
	
	lesson plans
	
	
	novels
	
	 
	poems
	
	
	recipes
	
	
	
		2.
		The Puritans were a group of people who were dissatisfied with...
	
	
	
	
	 
	God
	
	
	themselves
	
	
	the political scenario
	
	 
	the Church of England.
	
	
	The Catholic Church
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		3.
		Who was the first published poet in America¿a remarkable accomplishment considering that writing was thought improper for a woman at that time?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Anne Bradford
	
	
	Anne Woodbridge
	
	 
	Anne
 Bradstreet
	
	
	Anne Wordsworth
	
	
	Anne Broadstock
	
	
	
		4.
		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 lack of printing presses in the early years of the first American colonies.
	
	
	Because her husband had prohibited its publication.
	
	
	Given the fact that she was born and educated in England.
	
	
	Due to the fact that she was already very famous in England for that time.
	
	
	Because the author was a woman.
	
	
	
		5.
		The ____________ was the only religious reference recognized by The Puritans.
	
	
	
	
	 
	Tipitaka
	
	 
	Bible
	
	
	Koran
	
	
	Torah
	
	
	Gita
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		6.
		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:
	
	
	
	
	 
	" a realistic, if biased, account of Native Americans"
	
	 
	¿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"
	
	
	" the history of hurricane survivors"
	
	
	" The formation of alliances by the Native Americans against the settlers"
	
	
	
		7.
		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
	
	
	Modern origins
	
	 
	Puritan origins
		1.
		In "The fall of the House of Usher", the atmosphere of the short story is best described as:
	
	
	
	
	 
	happy
	
	 
	gloomy
	
	
	relaxing
	
	
	indifferent
	
	
	hopeful
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		2.
		The gothic inspiration in Poe´s work is expressed by
	
	
	
	
	 
	the light side of human nature
	
	
	the value given to the self
	
	
	the modernist characteristics found in Poe´s stories
	
	 
	the gloomy side of human nature
	
	
	the happy stories told by the writer
	
	
	
		3.
		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 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 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 long, dramatic narrative poetry in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
	
	
	
		4.
		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 Raven (1845)
	
	
	The Heaven (1843)
	
	 
	The Heaven (1845)
	
	
	The Raven (1844)
	
	
	The Raven (1846)
	
	
	
		5.
		In The Fall of the House of Usher, the choice of adjectives reflect the -------- atmosphere created by Poe.
	
	
	
	
	
	soft
	
	
	optimistic
	
	 
	gloomy
	
	
	happy
	
	
	logical
	
	
	
		6.
		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:
	
	
	
	
	
	haunted castles or wind-blasted mills, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes.
	
	 
	haunted castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or mysterious events.
	
	
	big chapels and colourful gardens
	
	
	hunting castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes.
	
	
	hunting castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or mysterious events.
	
	
	
		7.
		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
	
	
	Philip Freneau
	
	 
	John Locke
	
	
	Ralph Waldo Emerson
	
	
	Thomas Paine
	
	
	
		8.
		Thoreau¿s method of retreat and concentration resembles Asian meditation techniques. The resemblance is not accidental: like Emerson and Whitman, he was influenced by:
	
	
	
	
	
	German and Buddhist philosophy.
	
	 
	Greek and Buddhist philosophy.
	
	
	Hindu and African philosophy.
	
	
	Hindu and Roman philosophy.
	
	 
	Hindu and Buddhist philosophy.
	
		1.
		The 18th-century American Enlightenment was a movement marked by an emphasis on:
	
	
	
	
	 
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy.
	
	 
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquisition instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy.
	
	
	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 questioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of parliament.
	
	
	
		2.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	sonnets
	
	 
	poems
	
	
	romances
	
	
	plays
	
	
	poetries
	
	
	
		3.
		"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 figurewrote these lines in the Declaration of Independence. Who was this man and when was the Declaration published?
	
	
	
	
	 
	Thomas Jefferson in 1776
	
	
	Noah Webster in 1777
	
	
	Adam Smith in 1777
	
	
	Benjamin Franklin in 1776
	
	
	Thomas Paine in 1777
	
	
	
		4.
		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:
	
	
	
	
	 
	lonely explorers inside society and convention.
	
	
	lonely explorers outside the country and convention.
	
	 
	lonely explorers outside society and convention.
	
	
	lonely explorers outside society and out of convention.
	
	
	group of explorers outside society and convention.
	
	
	
		5.
		Walt Whitman¿s greatness is visible in many of his poems, among them:
	
	
	
	
	 
	¿Crossing Brooklyn Ferry¿ and ¿Leaves of Grass"
	
	
	¿Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking¿ and "A Fable for Critics"
	
	
	¿Crossing Brooklyn Ferry¿ and ¿The Chambered Nautilus¿
	
	
	"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking¿ and "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
	
	
	¿When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom¿d¿ and ¿Evangeline¿
	
	
	
		6.
		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
	
	
	
	
	 
	Judith Sargent Murray
	
	 
	Emily Dickinson
	
	
	Mercy Otis Warren
	
	
	Hannah Foster
	
	
	Susanna Rowson
	
	
	
		7.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	
	Enlightenment
	
	
	Rationalism
	
	 
	Transcendentalism
	
	
	Humanism
	
	
	Realism
	
	
	
		8.
		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:
	
	
	
	
	
	Dynamism, self-resistance, intuition, and idealism
	
	 
	Dynamism, self-reliance, intuition, and idealism
	
	
	Optimism, self-reliance, intuition, and realism
	
	 
	Optimism, self-reliance, intuition, and idealism
	
	
	Dynamism, self-reliance, observation, and idealism
	
		1.
		Twain ´s writing clearly contributes to the movement of Realism because he
	
	
	
	
	 
	writes romantic tales
	
	
	writes about ancient values
	
	
	he represents life in an ideal way
	
	 
	views humans as naturally sinful people capable of good and bad things equally
	
	
	paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
	
	
	
		2.
		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 chains.
	
	
	he will be blessed to hell for breaking the law.
	
	
	he will be damned to hell for no-breaking the law.
	
	
	he will be damned to heaven for breaking the law.
	
	 
	he will be damned to hell for breaking the law.
	
	
	
		3.
		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 / civilized society
	
	
	an alcoholic bum / Mississippi River / uncivilized society
	
	
	an alcoholic lawyer / Mississippi River / civilized society
	
	
	an alcoholic bum / Mississippi Canyon / civilized society
	
	
	an alcoholic dummy / Mississippi River / civilized society
	
	
	
		4.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	Nathaniel Hawthorne and other American writers
	
	
	Herman Melville and other American writers
	
	 
	Mark Twain and other American writers
	
	
	Emily Dickinson and other American writers
	
	
	Walt Whitman and other American writers
	
	
	
		5.
		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 steamboat and the railroad
	
	
	the rotator and the railroad
	
	
	the battery and conductor
	
	
	the steamboat and the lightning rod
	
	
	the electricity and bifocal eyeglasses
	
	
	
		6.
		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 human nature and give him moral courage.
	
	
	complexities of human nature and give him no moral courage.
	
	
	complexities of animal nature and give him moral courage.
	
	
	facilities of human nature and give him moral courage.
	
	
	complexities of human nature and give him immoral courage.
	
	
	
		7.
		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
	
	
	European style
	
	
	romantic characteristics
	
	
	strange tales
	
	 
	national voice
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		8.
		Twain ´s writing clearly contributes to the movement of Realism because he
	
	
	
	
	 
	views humans as naturally sinful people capable of good and bad things equally
	
	
	writes romantic tales
	
	
	writes about ancient values
	
	
	he represents life in an ideal way
	
	 
	paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
	
		1.
		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 _______________.
	
	
	
	
	 
	Moby- Dick and The Scarlet Letter
	
	 
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and The Scarlet Letter
	
	
	Moby- Dick and Leaves of Grass
	
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and Moby- Dick
	
	
	Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter2.
		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 exactness
	
	 
	The power of darkness
	
	
	The danger of darkness
	
	
	The power of lightness
	
	
	The power of clearness
	
	
	
		3.
		____________ 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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	The Last of the Mohicans
	
	
	Hobomok
	
	
	The Woman¿s Bible
	
	
	Uncle Tom¿s Cabin
	
	 
	Moby-Dick
	
	
	
		4.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	desire
	
	
	aging
	
	
	friendship
	
	 
	life
	
	
	love
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		5.
		Choose the option which best completes the following sentence:The majority of Hawthorne's work focuses on New England, based on moral values with
	
	
	
	
	
	a logical planning
	
	
	strange locations
	
	
	modern themes
	
	 
	a puritan inspiration
	
	 
	french ideals
	
	
	
		6.
		Choose the option which best completes the following sentence: In Moby Dick, Melville satirizes
	
	
	
	
	
	whales
	
	 
	historical values
	
	 
	religious values
	
	
	women
	
	
	sea stories
	
	
	
		7.
		- 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:
	
	
	
	
	 
	Herman Melville
	
	 
	Edgar Allan Poe
	
	
	Henry Longfellow
	
	
	Emily Dickinson
	
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	
	
	
		8.
		Choose the option which best completes the following sentence: In Moby Dick, the sea represents a transitional place
	
	
	
	
	 
	in the levels of sadness characters present
	
	
	from men´s ideals to women´s ideals.
	
	
	from inner space to outer space
	
	 
	from an uncivilized to a civilized society
	
	
	in the expression of moral values.
	
	
	
		1.
		______________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 / Naturalism
	
	
	Romanticism / Cubism
	
	
	Romanticism / Impressionism
	
	
	Romanticism / Modernism
	
	
	Romanticism / Realism
	
	
	
		2.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	local
	
	
	interior
	
	
	special
	
	
	subjective
	
	 
	objective
	
	
	
		3.
		In Realism,all the literary content is simple and not more important than the characters. The characters usually belong to the ---------------.
	
	
	
	
	 
	high society.
	
	
	educated classes.
	
	 
	middle class.
	
	
	upper classes.
	
	
	foreign classes.
	
	
	
		4.
		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 / Naturalism
	
	
	Romanticism / Realism
	
	
	Romanticism / Modernism
	
	
	
		5.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	Cubism
	
	
	Naturalism
	
	
	Romanticism
	
	
	Modernism
	
	 
	Realism
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		6.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	overpopulated
	
	
	overestimated
	
	 
	overjoyed
	
	
	overexposed
	
	
	overlooked
	
	
	
		7.
		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
	
	 
	Modernism
	
	 
	Realism
	
	
	Cubism
	
	
	Romanticism
	
	
	
		8.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	
	Puritanism
	
	 
	The Romanticism
	
	
	the Revolutionary Period writers
	
	 
	the Colonial literature
	
	
	the British literature
	
		1.
		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 dignity.
	
	 
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and liberty.
	
	 
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and irony.
	
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive alphabets and irony.
	
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and tyranny.
	
	
	
		2.
		____________ 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.
	
	
	
	
	
	Henry Longfellow
	
	 
	Stephen Crane
	
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	
	
	James Lowell
	
	
	Emily Dickinson
	
	
	
		3.
		The term Naturalism was invented by-------------- mainly to impress the reading public that something updated was about to occur in his fiction.
	
	
	
	
	 
	Emile Zola
	
	
	Anne Bradstreet
	
	
	Sinclair Lewis
	
	
	Jean Paul Sartre
	
	
	Benjamin Franklin
	
	
	
		4.
		______________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.
	
	
	
	
	
	Modernism
	
	
	Cubism
	
	 
	Realism
	
	 
	Naturalism
	
	
	Romanticism
	
	
	
		5.
		_______________ 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.
	
	
	
	
	
	Naturalism
	
	 
	Realism
	
	 
	Modernism
	
	
	Cubism
	
	
	Romanticism
	
	
	
		6.
		___________________ 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 (1861-1866)
	
	 
	The U.S. Civil War (1860-1865)
	
	
	The U.S. Civil War (1861-1864)
	
	 
	The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)
	
	
	The U.S. Civil War (1860-1866)
	
	
	
		7.
		As industrialization grew, so did alienation. Characteristic American novels of the period " _________________ "  depict the damage of economic forces and alienation on the weak 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
	
	
	
		8.
		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 secure women¿s rights, 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.
	
	
	The organizations to maintain slavery, secure women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and improve prisons.
	
	 
	The organizations to end slavery, stop drunkenness, secure women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and improve prisons.
	
		1.
		An important feature of James¿ characters is that, even considering the subjective aspect of their personalities, each of them will always accept his/her realistic nature. How does James do this so?
	
	
	
	
	
	By creating round characters only.
	
	 
	By assuring that each character acts in a consistent manner throughout the whole novel.
	
	
	By showing a frequent change in the characters' behaviors.
	
	
	By creating flat characters only.
	
	
	By assuring intelligent dialogues among characters.
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		2.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	historical events
	
	
	sad stories
	
	
	social events
	
	 
	life and death
	
	
	special registers
	
	
	
		3.
		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 psychiatrist and a philosopher
	
	
	a professor and a theologian
	
	
	philosopher and college professor
	
	 
	a philosopher and theologian
	
	
	
		4.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	the Modern times
	
	
	Revolutionary literature
	
	
	Puritan values
	
	
	Classical literature
	
	
	the Ancient times
	
	
	
		5.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	Mark Twain / Stephen Crane
	
	
	Walt Whitman / Henry James
	
	
	Stephen Crane / Henry James
	
	
	Mark Twain / Walt Whitman
	
	 
	Mark Twain / Henry James
	
	
	
		6.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	
	actions
	
	
	bodies
	
	 
	minds
	
	
	historical records
	
	
	style
	
	
	
		7.
		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 ---------------
	
	
	
	
	
	listening
	
	
	writing
	
	 
	reading
	
	 
	telling
	
	
	fighting
	
	
	
		8.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	
	simple
	
	 
	difficult
	
	
	sad
	
	
	happy
	
	 
	ironical
	
		1.
		Considering American Literature timeline, writer Edith Wharton wrote in the:
	
	
	
	
	
	21st Century
	
	 
	19th Century
	
	 
	18th Century
	
	
	20th Century
	
	
	17th Century
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		2.
		______________________ is one of Wharton's most famous works.
	
	
	
	
	
	The Altar of the Dead
	
	 
	Ghosts
	
	
	City of Glass
	
	 
	The age of innocence
	
	
	Hucky Finn
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		3.
		All characteristics bellow can be applied to Edith Wharton's personality, EXCEPT for:
	
	
	
	
	
	interesting
	
	
	energetic
	
	
	curious
	
	 
	charming
	
	
	thinker
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		4.
		The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton, a realist American writer, was published in-------and won the Pulitzer Prize.
	
	
	
	
	 
	1700
	
	
	1666
	
	 
	1920
	
	
	2004
	
	
	1806
	
	
	
		5.
		Edith Wharton broke out of the conventional views of her time becoming the first woman to win the ___________________ for fiction.
	
	
	
	
	
	America Award
	
	 
	Franz Kafka Prize
	
	
	American Book Awards
	
	
	Nobel Prize
	
	 
	Pulitzer Prize
	
	
	
		6.The Age of Innocence writen by Edith Wharton is a brilliant, sharply ironic portrayal of the changing scene of fashionable American life in--------
	
	
	
	
	
	London
	
	 
	Old New York
	
	 
	Chicago
	
	
	Boston
	
	
	Italy
	
	
	
		7.
		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 I is true
	
	
	Only statement III is true
	
	 
	All three statements are true
	
	
	Only statements I and III are true
	
	
	Only statement II and III are true
	
		1.
		All the following are Auster's works EXCEPT for....
	
	
	
	
	
	The City of glass
	
	
	The locked room
	
	
	New York trilogy
	
	 
	The Other Two
	
	
	Ghosts
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		2.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	 
	life
	
	
	literary criticism
	
	 
	themes
	
	
	conflicts
	
	
	settings
	
	
	
		3.
		In the options below, choose what are novels from Toni Morrison:
	
	
	
	
	
	Amanda / The Woman Warrior
	
	 
	Beloved / The Color Purple
	
	
	The woman Warrior / The Color Purple
	
	 
	Beloved / Amanda
	
	
	Song of Solomon / The Color Purple
	
	
	
		4.
		Paul Auster searched for ---------and personal meaning in his works.
	
	
	
	
	
	money
	
	
	happiness
	
	 
	identity
	
	 
	republican distinctions
	
	
	traditional values
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		5.
		Auster gained recognition for a series of three loosely connected detective stories published collectively as---------------.
	
	
	
	
	
	Death of a salesman
	
	 
	The New York Trilogy
	
	
	The old man and the sea
	
	
	A streetcar named Desire
	
	
	The House of Mirth
	
	
	
		6.
		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
	
	 
	puritan
	
	
	realist
	
	
	romantic
	
	
	transcendental
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402932685)
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	The Puritans were a group of people who were dissatisfied with...
		
	
	God
	 
	the Church of England.
	
	the political scenario
	 
	The Catholic Church
	
	themselves
		 Gabarito Comentado.
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201403060744)
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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
	
	Romantic origins
	
	Modern origins
	
	Revolutionary origins
	 
	Puritan origins
		
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402968739)
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	In "The fall of the House of Usher", the atmosphere of the short story is best described as:
		
	 
	gloomy
	
	hopeful
	
	indifferent
	
	relaxing
	
	happy
		 Gabarito Comentado.
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201403055842)
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	The gothic inspiration in Poe´s work is expressed by
		
	
	the light 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 gloomy side of human nature
		
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402540028)
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	Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the ideals of:
		
	 
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man.
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural duties of man.
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the common rights of man.
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of some groups.
	
	justice, democracy, and equality as the natural rights of man.
		
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402540041)
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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 Civil War
	
	The Glorious Revolution
	 
	The Industrial Revolution
	
	The War of the Roses
	
	The Secession Civil War
		
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201403055857)
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	Twain ´s writing clearly contributes to the movement of Realism because he
		
	
	he represents life in an ideal way
	 
	paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
	 
	views humans as naturally sinful people capable of good and bad things equally
	
	writes romantic tales
	
	writes about ancient values
		
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201403058180)
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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 ------------------.
		
	
	European style
	
	sad stories
	
	romantic characteristics
	 
	national voice
	
	strange tales
		 Gabarito Comentado.
	
	
	 9a Questão (Ref.: 201402540474)
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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:
		
	
	James Lowell
	
	Henry Longfellow
	
	James Lowell Henry Longfellow Stephen Crane Nathaniel Hawthorne Emily Dickinson
	 
	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	
	Emily Dickinson
		
	
	
	 10a Questão (Ref.: 201403170843)
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	When we read Nathaniel Hawthorne's books , we can clearly identify him as a:
		
	 
	Dark Romantic
	 
	Puritan
	
	Religious
	
	Revolutionay
	
	Transcendentalist
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402932686)
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	The ____________ was the only religious reference recognized by The Puritans.
		
	
	Tipitaka
	
	Gita
	 
	Bible
	
	Torah
	
	Koran
		 Gabarito Comentado.
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201403061556)
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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.
		
	 
	poems
	
	recipes
	
	novels
	
	fairy tales
	
	lesson plans
		
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201402540035)
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	By the time of the Declaration of Independence, American literarypatriots felt sure that the great American Revolution naturally would find expression in the epic. The concept of epic is:
		
	
	a long, dramatic narrative poetry in elevated language, celebrating the feats 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 poem in elevated language, celebrating the fears of a legendary hero.
	
	a long, dramatic descriptive poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
		
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402540051)
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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 (1845)
	
	The Heaven (1843)
	 
	The Raven (1846)
	 
	 The Raven (1845)
	
	The Raven (1844)
		
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402540061)
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	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 Italy.
	
	. Rome and Paris.
	 
	Greece and Rome.
	
	Rome and Venice.
	
	Greece and London.
		
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402540448)
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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 all states.
	
	prohibited imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all nations.
	
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of only one nation.
	 
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all nations.
	 
	free imagination, peopled without pioneering spirits of all nations.
		
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201403069434)
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	Twain ´s writing clearly contributes to the movement of Realism because he
		
	 
	views humans as naturally sinful people capable of good and bad things equally
	
	writes romantic tales
	
	he represents life in an ideal way
	 
	paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
	
	writes about ancient values
		
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201402540501)
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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 blessed 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 law.
	
	he will be damned to hell for breaking the chains.
		
	
	
	 9a Questão (Ref.: 201403061566)
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	Moby Dick was a novel that could show the variety of ------------in the United States.
		
	
	shops
	
	navigation maps
	
	religions
	
	ships
	 
	races
		
	
	
	 10a Questão (Ref.: 201403058194)
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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.
		
	
	love
	
	desire
	 
	life
	
	friendship
	
	aging
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201402540019)
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	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 deep cultural conflict between New England¿s Native American and European inhabitants"
	
	" a realistic, if biased, account of Native Americans"
	 
	¿the fruit of some few hours, curtailed from sleep and other refreshments.¿
		
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201402540018)
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	Who was the first published poet in America¿a remarkable accomplishment considering that writing was thought improper for a woman at that time?
		
	
	Anne Bradford
	
	Anne Wordsworth
	
	Anne Woodbridge
	
	Anne Broadstock
	 
	Anne Bradstreet
		
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201403058147)
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	In The Fall of the House of Usher, the choice of adjectives reflect the -------- atmosphere created by Poe.
		
	
	soft
	
	happy
	
	logical
	 
	gloomy
	
	optimistic
		
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201402540052)
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	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:
		
	
	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 mysterious events.
	
	haunted castles or wind-blasted mills, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes.
	
	hunting castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes.
		
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201402540050)
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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:
		
	
	Critical literature
	
	Lyric literature
	
	Classical Literature
	
	Epic literature
	 
	Gothic literature
		 Gabarito Comentado.
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201402540058)
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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.
		
	
	Nation
	
	Union
	
	Ocean
	 
	Nature
	
	Power
		
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201402540502)
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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 bum / Mississippi River / civilized society
	
	an alcoholic bum / Mississippi Canyon / civilized society
	
	an alcoholic lawyer / Mississippi River / civilized society
	
	an alcoholic dummy / Mississippi River / civilized society
		
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201402540500)
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	For __________________of the late 19th century, realism was not merely a literary technique: It was a way of speaking truthand exploding worn-out conventions.
		
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne and other American writers
	 
	Mark Twain and other American writers
	
	Herman Melville and other American writers
	
	Emily Dickinson and other American writers
	
	Walt Whitman and other American writers
		
	
	
	 9a Questão (Ref.: 201402540491)
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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:
		
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	
	Edgar Allan Poe
	
	Henry Longfellow
	 
	Herman Melville
	
	Emily Dickinson
		
	
	
	 10a Questão (Ref.: 201402540471)
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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 _______________.
		
	 
	Moby- Dick and The Scarlet Letter
	
	Moby- Dick and Leaves of Grass
	
	Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and The Scarlet Letter
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and Moby- Dick