Literatura Norte- Americana - Ex. 1 a 10

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1.
		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 fruit of some few hours, curtailed from sleep and other refreshments.¿ 
	
	
	" 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" 
	
	
	
		2.
		Who was the first published poet in America¿a remarkable accomplishment considering that writing was thought improper for a woman at that time? 
	
	
	
	
	
	Anne Wordsworth 
	
	
	Anne Bradstreet 
	
	
	Anne Woodbridge 
	
	
	Anne Bradford 
	
	
	Anne Broadstock 
	
	
	
		3.
		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
	
	
	Revolutionary origins
	
	
	Modern origins
	
	
	Puritan origins
	
	
	
		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? 
	
	
	
	
	
	Because her husband had prohibited its publication. 
	
	
	Due to the fact that she was already very famous in England for that time.
	
	
	Given the fact that she was born and educated in England. 
	
	
	Given the lack of printing presses in the early years of the first American colonies. 
	
	
	Because the author was a woman. 
	
	
	
		5.
		Anne Bradstreet was a woman who wrote -------------in the 17th century. She represented the heart of American women at that time.
	
	
	
	
	
	recipes
	
	
	lesson plans
	
	
	novels
	
	
	poems
	
	
	fairy tales
	
	
	
		6.
		The ____________ was the only religious reference recognized by The Puritans.
	
	
	
	
	
	Bible
	
	
	Tipitaka
	
	
	Koran
	
	
	Gita
	
	
	Torah
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
		7.
		The Puritans were a group of people who were dissatisfied with...
	
	
	
	
	
	the Church of England.
	
	
	the political scenario
	
	
	themselves
	
	
	God
	
	
	The Catholic Church
2ª AULA
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201502879118)
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	In "The fall of the House of Usher", the atmosphere of the short story is best described as:
		
	
	happy
	
	relaxing
	
	gloomy
	
	hopeful
	
	indifferent
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502966221)
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	The gothic inspiration in Poe´s work is expressed by
		
	
	the gloomy side of human nature
	
	the light side of human nature
	
	the value given to the self
	
	the modernist characteristics found in Poe´s stories
	
	the happy stories told by the writer
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502450411)
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	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 
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502450849)
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	Thoreau¿s method of retreat and concentration resembles Asian meditation techniques. The resemblance is not accidental: like Emerson and Whitman, he was influenced by: 
		
	
	Hindu and Roman philosophy. 
	
	Greek and Buddhist philosophy. 
	
	Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. 
	
	German and Buddhist philosophy. 
	
	Hindu and African philosophy. 
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502450430)
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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 Raven (1846) 
	
	The Heaven (1843) 
	
	The Heaven (1845) 
	
	 The Raven (1845) 
	
	The Raven (1844) 
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502450431)
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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 mills, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes. 
	
	hunting castles or wind-blasted moors, and their plots involve violent or funny jokes. 
	
	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. 
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502968526)
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	In The Fall of the House of Usher, the choice of adjectives reflect the -------- atmosphere created by Poe.
		
	
	logical
	
	happy
	
	gloomy
	
	optimistic
	
	soft
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201502450414)
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	By the time of the Declaration of Independence, American literary patriots felt sure that the great American Revolution naturally would find expression in the epic. The concept of epic is:
		
	
	a long, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the fears of a legendary hero. 
	
	a short, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero. 
	
	a long, dramatic narrative poetry 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 feats of a legendary hero. 
	
3º AULA
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201502450415)
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	Corset maker, cobbler, teacher, tax collector¿ he failed miserably at every line of work he attempted in his native England. This man achieved his successes with a pen only, but his contribution to the cause of freedom is incalculable. Common Sense inspired even the most reluctant to rebel against what he called the ¿tyranny of Britain¿. He was: 
		
	
	Thomas Jefferson 
	
	Benjamin Franklin 
	
	Noah Webster 
	
	Thomas Paine 
	
	Adam Smith
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502450846)
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	Dickinson¿s 1,775 __________ continue to intrigue critics, who often disagree about them. Some stress her mystical side, some her sensitivity to nature; many note her odd, exotic appeal. Her clean, clear, chiseled poems are some of the most fascinating and challenging in American literature. 
		
	
	poems 
	
	plays 
	
	poetries 
	
	romances 
	
	sonnets 
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502450829)
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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 
	
	Hannah Foster 
	
	Mercy Otis Warren 
	
	Emily Dickinson 
	
	Judith Sargent Murray 
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502450420)
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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 Industrial Revolution 
	
	The Glorious Revolution
	
	The War of the Roses 
	
	The Civil War 
	
	The Secession Civil War 
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502450425)
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	Toward the end of the 1700s, bold new ideas began to transform European civilization. In time, many of these ideas would become part of Romanticism, a movement in art and thought that dominated Europe and the United States throughout much of the 1800s. Some of the roots of this movement were: 
		
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with reality and the power of darkness 
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with Nature and the power of lightness 
	
	optimism and individualism, aversion to Nature and the power of darkness
	
	optimism and liberalism, kinship with Nature and the power of darkness 
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with Nature and the power of darkness 
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502450828)
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	Walt Whitman¿s greatness is visible in many of his poems, among them:
		
	
	¿Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking¿ and "A Fable for Critics" 
	
	¿When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom¿d¿ and ¿Evangeline¿ 
	
	"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking¿ and "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" 
	
	¿Crossing Brooklyn Ferry¿ and ¿The Chambered Nautilus¿ 
	
	¿Crossing Brooklyn Ferry¿ and ¿Leaves of Grass" 
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502450436)
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	The Romantics tended to emphasize two aspects of nature¿ _______________. The darker Romantics, such as the Melville of Moby-Dick, stressed nature¿s destructive power. Although Ralph Emerson was sensitive to the power of the untamed American wilderness, he chose to dwell on the beauty of nature. 
		
	
	beauty and power 
	
	power and construction 
	
	beauty and commitment 
	
	beauty and slavery 
	
	power and arrangement 
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201502450434)
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	In the 1830s, the influence of Romanticism began to be felt in the United States. One result was ________________, a loosely organized movement that embodied the ideas of thinkers who were active in New England in the 1830s and 1840s. 
		
	
	Rationalism 
	
	Transcendentalism 
	
	Realism 
	
	Humanism 
	
	Enlightenment 
	
		2.
		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:
	
	
	
	
	
	Benjamin Franklin 
	
	
	Thomas Jefferson 
	
	
	Richard Saunders
	
	
	Noah Webster 
	
	
	Thomas Paine 
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
		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 figure wrote these lines in the Declaration of Independence. Who was this man and when was the Declaration published?
	
	
	
	
	
	Benjamin Franklin in 1776 
	
	
	Thomas Jefferson in 1776 
	
	
	Thomas Paine in 1777 
	
	
	Noah Webster in 1777 
	
	
	Adam Smith in 1777
	
	
	
		4.
		The 18th-century American Enlightenment was a movement marked by an emphasis on:
	
	
	
	
	
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of questioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of parliament. 
	
	
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquisition instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. 
	
	
	tradition rather than rationality, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. . 
	
	
	rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. 
	
	
	tradition rather than rationality, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative parliament in place of monarchy. . 
	
	
	
		5.
		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 
	
	
	Critical literature 
	
	
	Classical Literature 
	
	
	Lyric literature 
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
		6.
		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 outside society and out of convention. 
	
	
	lonely explorers outside society and convention. 
	
	
	lonely explorers outside the country and convention. 
	
	
	group of explorers outside society and convention. 
	
	
	lonely explorers inside society and convention. 
	
	
	
		7.
		Toward the end of the 1700s, bold new ideas began to transform European civilization. In time, many of these ideas would become part of Romanticism, a movement in art and thought that dominated Europe and the United States throughout much of the 1800s. Some of the roots of this movement were: 
	
	
	
	
	
	optimism and liberalism, kinship with Nature and the power of darkness 
	
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with Nature and the power of lightness 
	
	
	optimism and individualism, aversion to Nature and the power of darkness
	
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with Nature and the power of darkness 
	
	
	optimism and individualism, kinship with reality and the power of darkness 
	
	
	
		8.
		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 Glorious Revolution
	
	
	The Secession Civil War 
	
	
	The War of the Roses 
	
	
	The Industrial Revolution 
	
	
	The Civil War 
		1.
		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. 
	
	
	
	
	
	poems 
	
	
	plays 
	
	
	romances 
	
	
	sonnets 
	
	
	poetries 
	
	
	
		2.
		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 
	
	
	
		3.
		Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the ideals of:
	
	
	
	
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural duties of man. 
	
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of some groups.
	
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the common rights of man. 
	
	
	justice, democracy, and equality as the natural rights of man. 
	
	
	justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man. 
	
	
	
		4.
		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-reliance, intuition, and idealism
	
	
	Optimism, self-reliance, intuition, and idealism 
	
	
	Dynamism, self-resistance, intuition, and idealism 
	
	
	Optimism, self-reliance, intuition, and realism 
	
	
	Dynamism, self-reliance, observation, and idealism 
	
	
	
		5.
		_________________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. 
	
	
	
	
	
	Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. 
	
	
	The Raven 
	
	
	The Pit and the Pendulum 
	
	
	A Fable for Critics 
	
	
	The Scarlet Letter 
	
	
	
		6.
		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:
	
	
	
	
	
	Rome and Venice. 
	
	
	Greece and Italy. 
	
	
	Greece and London. 
	
	
	. Rome and Paris. 
	
	
	Greece and Rome. 
	
	
	
		7.
		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.
	
	
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all nations. 
	
	
	free imagination, peopled without pioneering spirits of all nations. 
	
	
	prohibited imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all nations. 
	
	
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of only one nation.
	
	
	
		8.
		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 
	
	
	Humanism 
	
	
	Transcendentalism 
	
	
	Rationalism 
	
	
	Realism 
4ª AULA
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201502450881)
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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 / civilized society 
	
	an alcoholic dummy / Mississippi River / civilized society 
	
	an alcoholic bum / Mississippi Canyon / civilized society 
	
	an alcoholic bum / Mississippi River / uncivilized society 
	
	an alcoholic lawyer / Mississippi River / civilized society 
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502979813)
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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 about ancient values
	
	writes romantic tales
	
	paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
	
	he represents life in an ideal way
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502450424)
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	During the Age of Reform, an expanding network of roads and canals united different sections of the country. Two new inventions revolutionized transportation, they were:
		
	
	the steamboat and the lightning rod 
	
	the electricity and bifocal eyeglasses 
	
	the steamboat and the railroad 
	
	the rotator and the railroad 
	
	the battery and conductor 
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502966236)
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	Twain ´s writing clearly contributes to the movement of Realism because he
		
	
	he represents life in an ideal way
	
	views humans as naturally sinful people capable of good and bad things equally
	
	writes romantic tales
	
	writes about ancient values
	
	paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502450879)
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	For __________________of the late 19th century, realism was not merely a literary technique: It was a way of speaking truth and exploding worn-out conventions. 
		
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne and other American writers 
	
	Emily Dickinson and other American writers 
	
	Mark Twain and other American writers 
	
	Herman Melville and other American writers 
	
	Walt Whitman and other American writers 
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502450880)
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	The ideas of realism were profoundly liberating and potentially at odds with society. The most well-known example is Huck Finn, a poor boy who decides to follow the voice of his conscience and help a Negro slave escape to freedom, even though Huck thinks this means that:
		
	
	he will be damned to hell for breaking the chains. 
	
	he will be blessed to hell for breaking the law. 
	
	he will be damned to hell for breaking the law. 
	
	he will be damned to heaven for breaking the law. 
	
	he will be damned to hell for no-breaking the law. 
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502968559)
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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
strange tales
	
	national voice
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201502450882)
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	Huckleberry Finn has inspired countless literary interpretations. Clearly, the novel is a story of death, rebirth, and initiation. The escaped slave, Jim, becomes a father figure for Huck; in deciding to save Jim, Huck grows morally beyond the bounds of his slave-owning society. It is Jim¿s adventures that initiate Huck into the:
		
	
	complexities of animal nature and give him moral courage. 
	
	facilities of human nature and give him moral courage. 
	
	complexities of human nature and give him immoral courage. 
	
	complexities of human nature and give him no moral courage. 
	
	complexities of human nature and give him moral courage.
5ª AULA
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201502450428)
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	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 clearness 
	
	The power of lightness 
	
	The danger of darkness 
	
	The power of darkness 
	
	The power of exactness 
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502968573)
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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.
		
	
	desire
	
	aging
	
	life
	
	friendship
	
	love
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502450870)
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	- Despite his patrician upbringing, proud family traditions, and hard work, _____________ found himself in poverty with no college education. At 19 he went to sea. His interest in sailors¿ lives grew naturally out of his own experiences, and most of his early novels grew out of his voyages. In these we see the young wide, democratic experience and hatred of tyranny and injustice of:
		
	
	Emily Dickinson 
	
	Edgar Allan Poe 
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne 
	
	Henry Longfellow 
	
	Herman Melville 
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502450850)
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	In the Romantic Period - 1820 to 1860, the Romance form is dark and forbidding, indicating how difficult it is to create an identity without a stable society. Most of the Romantic heroes die in the end: All the sailors except Ishmael are drowned in ____________, and the sensitive but sinful minister Arthur Dimmesdale dies at the end of _______________.
		
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and Moby- Dick 
	
	Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter 
	
	Moby- Dick and Leaves of Grass 
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and The Scarlet Letter 
	
	Moby- Dick and The Scarlet Letter 
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201503081222)
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	When we read Nathaniel Hawthorne's books , we can clearly identify him as a:
		
	
	Religious
	
	Transcendentalist
	
	Dark Romantic
	
	Revolutionay
	
	Puritan
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502450873)
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	____________ has been called a ¿natural epic¿ ¿ a magnificent dramatization of the human spirit set in primitive nature ¿ because of its hunter myth, its initiation theme, its Edenic island symbolism, its positive treatment of pre-technological peoples, and its quest for rebirth. 
		
	
	The Woman¿s Bible 
	
	Uncle Tom¿s Cabin 
	
	Moby-Dick 
	
	Hobomok 
	
	The Last of the Mohicans 
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201503081208)
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	Choose the option which best completes the following sentence: In Moby Dick, Melville satirizes
		
	
	religious values
	
	women
	
	whales
	
	historical values
	
	sea stories
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201503081219)
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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 
		
	
	strange locations
	
	a puritan inspiration
	
	a logical planning
	
	modern themes
	
	french ideals
		1.
		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 danger of darkness 
	
	
	The power of darkness 
	
	
	The power of clearness 
	
	
	The power of lightness 
	
	
	
		2.
		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: 
	
	
	
	
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne 
	
	
	Emily Dickinson 
	
	
	James Lowell Henry Longfellow Stephen Crane Nathaniel Hawthorne Emily Dickinson 
	
	
	James Lowell 
	
	
	Henry Longfellow 
	
	
	
		3.
		- Despite his patrician upbringing, proud family traditions, and hard work, _____________ found himself in poverty with no college education. At 19 he went to sea. His interest in sailors¿ lives grew naturally out of his own experiences, and most of his early novels grew out of his voyages. In these we see the young wide, democratic experience and hatred of tyranny and injustice of:
	
	
	
	
	
	Emily Dickinson 
	
	
	Edgar Allan Poe 
	
	
	Henry Longfellow 
	
	
	Nathaniel Hawthorne 
	
	
	Herman Melville 
	
	
	
		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
	
	
	love
	
	
	friendship
	
	
	life
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
		5.
		In the Romantic Period - 1820 to 1860, the Romance form is dark and forbidding, indicating how difficult it is to create an identity without a stable society. Most of the Romantic heroes die in the end: All the sailors except Ishmael are drowned in ____________, and the sensitive but sinful minister Arthur Dimmesdale dies at the end of _______________.
	
	
	
	
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and The Scarlet Letter 
	
	
	Moby- Dick and The Scarlet Letter 
	
	
	Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter 
	
	
	Moby- Dick and Leaves of Grass 
	
	
	The Minister¿s Black Veil and Moby- Dick 
	
	
	
		6.
		Moby Dick was a novel that could show the variety of ------------in the United States.
	
	
	
	
	
	shops
	
	
	religions
	
	
	ships
	
	
	races
	
	
	navigation maps
	
	
	
		7.
		When we read Nathaniel Hawthorne's books , we can clearly identify him as a:
	
	
	
	
	
	Revolutionay
	
	
	Transcendentalist
	
	
	Puritan
	
	
	Dark Romantic
	
	
	Religious
	
	
	
		8.
		____________ 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 
	
	
	Uncle Tom¿s Cabin 
	
	
	Hobomok 
	
	
	Moby-Dick 
	
	
	The Woman¿s Bible 
6ª AULA
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201502450965)
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	Like _______________, _______________ first appeared in Europe. It is usually traced to the works of Honoré de Balzac in the 1840s and seen as a French literary movement associated with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, Émile Zola, and Guy de Maupassant. 
		
	
	Romanticism / Cubism 
	
	Romanticism / Modernism 
	
	Romanticism / Naturalism 
	
	Romanticism / Realism 
	
	Romanticism / Impressionism 
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502450878)
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	Business boomed after the Civil War. It production had boosted industry in the North and given it prestige and political clout. It also gave industrial leaders valuable experience in the management of men and machines. The enormous natural resources ¿ iron, coal, oil, gold, and silver ¿ of the American land benefitted business. The new ______________, inaugurated in 1869, and the ________________, which began operating in 1861, gave industry access to materials, markets, and communications. The constant influx of immigrants provided a seemingly endless supply of inexpensive labor as well. 
		
	
	intercontinental road system, transcontinental telegraph 
	
	intercontinental rail system, transcontinental telegraph 
	
	continental rail system, transcontinental telegraph 
	
	intercontinental rail system, continental telegraph 
	
	continental road system, transcontinental telegraph 
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502450883)
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	The United States changed rapidly after the Civil War. American writers reacted to these changes by turning away from Romanticism toward ___________, a literary movement whose writers depicted life as they saw it, not as they imagined it to be.
		
	
	Romanticism 
	
	Modernism 
	
	Naturalism 
	
	Realism 
	
	Cubism 
	
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	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502450885)
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	The gap between rich and poor Americans widened greatly, and a few so-called robber barons became enormously wealthy as a result of the labors of their employees. Cities were______________, and the poor were forced to live in tenement houses that were crowded, dirty, and unsafe.
		
	
	overlooked 
	
	overestimated 
	
	overjoyed 
	
	overpopulated 
	
	overexposed 
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502966255)
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	In Huckleberry Finn, the author questioned
		
	
	the cooperation between the white people and slaves
	
	the happy life people lived by the Mississipi river
	
	the morality of white southerners
	
	the good life conditions slaves had 
	
	the foolish idea of Tom helping Jim to reach freedom.
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201503081234)
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	Choose the word which best completes the following sentence: The Realism is a literary movement that shows life without idealizing it. It also focuses on the everyday, and on the ideology of ------------ reality of ideas.
		
	
	special
	
	objective
	
	local
	
	interior
	
	subjective
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502450963)
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	______________is essentially a literary expression of determinism. Associated with bleak, realistic depictions of lower-class life, determinism denies religion as a motivating force in the world and instead perceives the universe as a machine.
		
	
	Romanticism / Realism 
	
	Romanticism / Modernism 
	
	Romanticism / Impressionism 
	
	Romanticism / Naturalism 
	
	Romanticism / Cubism 
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201502450887)
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	The rise of __________ in the United States can be traced to disillusionment following the Civil War. For many, the war had destroyed the Romantic view of humanity.
		
	
	Realism 
	
	Modernism 
	
	Romanticism 
	
	Naturalism 
	
	Cubism 
	
	
		1.
		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.
	
	
	foreign classes.
	
	
	upper classes.
7ª AULA
	
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201503082291)
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	Choose the option which does not describe the Naturalism:
		
	
	Characters from lower socioeconomic class;
	
	Detached method of narration;
	
	Character determined by heredity;
	
	Nature as a source of intuition
	
	Observation of a darker side of life.
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502450877)
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	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. 
		
	
	Stephen Crane¿s, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Jack London¿s, Martin Eden 
	
	Stephen Crane¿s, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Harriet Wilson, Our Nig 
	
	Theodore Dreiser¿s, An American Tragedy and Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 
	
	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, 
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502450891)
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	At the time of his death, Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, however, until two decades later when critics revived interest in his life and work. Stylistically, Crane's writing is characterized by:
		
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive alphabets and irony. 
	
	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 dialects and tyranny. 
	
	descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects and dignity. 
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502450999)
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	Toni Morrison has suggested that though her novels are consummate works of art, they contain________________: ¿I am not interested in indulging myself in some private exercise of my imagination...yes, the work must be political.¿ In __________, Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
		
	
	cultural meanings /1993 
	
	political meanings / 1994 
	
	economical meanings / 1994 political meanings /1993 
	
	political meanings /1995 
	
	political meanings /1993 
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502450890)
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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 
	
	James Lowell 
	
	Emily Dickinson
	
	Stephen Crane 
	
	Henry Longfellow 
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502450974)
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	_____________belonged to an aristocratic New York family with ancestry dating back three centuries. As a daughter of society , her role was to learn the mannerisms and rituals expected of well-bred young women in those days. Later she would rebel against this role but as a child she was schooled at home and had the privilege of use of her father's extensive library. She was privately educated at home and in Europe.
		
	
	Harriet Beecher Stowe 
	
	Sarah Orne Jewett 
	
	Edith Wharton 
	
	Mary Wilkins Freeman 
	
	Harriet Jacobs 
	
	
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502450423)
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	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 maintain slavery, secure women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and improve 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 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 secure women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and close prisons. 
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201502450824)
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	"_______________ 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 
	
	Liberalism 
	
	Enlightenment 
	
	Humanism 
	
	Optimism 
	
8ª AULA
 
	1a Questão (Ref.: 201503082336)
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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.
		
	
	happy
	
	sad
	
	ironical
	
	simple
	
	difficult
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201503082315)
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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
	
	telling
	
	fighting
	
	listening
	
	writing
	
	
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502971941)
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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.
		
	
	actions
	
	minds
	
	bodies
	
	historical records
	
	style
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502879512)
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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 .....
		
	
	philosopher and college professor
	
	a philosopher and theologian 
	
	a psychiatrist and a philosopher
	
	a professor and a theologian
	
	a psychologist and a theologian
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502879485)
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	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¿.
		
	
	persona non grata
	
	carpe diem
	
	sine qua non
	
	status quo
	
	vere-care
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502879547)
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	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 flat characters only.
	
	By creating round characters only.
	
	By showing a frequent change in the characters' behaviors.
	
	By assuring intelligent dialogues among characters.
	
	By assuring that each character acts in a consistent manner throughout the whole novel.
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502450972)
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	If the main theme of _____________¿s work is appearance and reality, ___________¿s constant concern is perception. In James, only self-awareness and clear perception of others yields wisdom and self-sacrificing love.
		
	
	Stephen Crane / Henry James 
	
	Mark Twain / Henry James 
	
	Walt Whitman / Henry James 
	
	Mark Twain / Walt Whitman 
	
	Mark Twain / Stephen Crane 
	
	
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201503082329)
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	The altar of the dead is a short story by Henry James based on a fable of literally --------- significance. This work was first published in his collection entitled Terminations in 1895 after the story failed of magazine publication.
		
	
	historical events
	
	life and death
	
	special registers
	
	sad stories
	
	social events
		2.
		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: 
	
	
	
	
	
	first half of the19th century. 
	
	
	second half of the17th century. 
	
	
	second half of the19th century. 
	
	
	first half of the17th century. 
	
	
	second half of the18th century. 
	
	
	
		3.
		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.
	
	
	
	
	
	Classical literature
	
	
	the Modern times
	
	
	Revolutionary literature
	
	
	Puritan values
	
	
	the Ancient times
9ª AULA
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201502971953)
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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--------
		
	
	London
	
	Italy
	
	Boston
	
	Chicago
	
	Old New York
	
	
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502879567)
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	Considering American Literature timeline, writer Edith Wharton wrote in the:
		
	
	17th Century
	
	21st Century
	
	19th Century
	
	20th Century
	
	18th Century
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502881633)
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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
	
	American Book Awards
	
	Franz Kafka Prize 
	
	Pulitzer Prize
	
	America Award
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502881645)
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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?
		
	
	All three statements are true
	
	Only statements I and III are true
	
	Only statement II and III are true
	
	Only statement III is true
	
	Only statement I is true
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502971956)
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	The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton, a realist American writer, was published in-------and won the Pulitzer Prize.
		
	
	1920
	
	1700
	
	1666
	
	1806
	
	2004
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502879765)
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	All characteristics bellow can be applied to Edith Wharton's personality, EXCEPT for:
		
	
	thinker
	
	energetic
	
	curious
	
	interesting 
	
	charming
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201502879805)
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	______________________ is one of Wharton's most famous works.
		
	
	City of Glass
	
	The Altar of the Dead
	
	The age of innocence
	
	Hucky Finn
	
	Ghosts
10ª AULA
	 1a Questão (Ref.: 201502971988)
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	Paul Auster searched for ---------and personal meaning in his works.
		
	
	identity
	
	happiness
	
	traditional values
	
	republican distinctions
	
	money
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201502879970)
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	All the following are Auster's works EXCEPT for....
		
	
	The locked room
	
	New York trilogy
	
	The City of glass
	
	Ghosts
	
	The Other Two
	
	Gabarito Comentado
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201502972032)
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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
	
	realist
	
	puritan
	
	transcendental
	
	romantic
	
	
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201502971999)
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	Auster gained recognition for a series of three loosely connected detective stories published collectively as---------------.
		
	
	The House of Mirth
	
	Death of a salesman
	
	A streetcar named Desire
	
	The New York Trilogy
	
	The old man and the sea
	
	
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201502972015)
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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.
		
	
	settings
	
	themes
	
	literary criticism
	
	conflicts
	
	life
	
	
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201502450983)
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	In the options below, choose what are novels from Toni Morrison:
		
	
	Beloved / The Color Purple 
	
	Beloved / Amanda 
	
	The woman Warrior / The Color Purple 
	
	Amanda / The Woman Warrior 
	
	Song of Solomon / The Color Purple