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1a Questão (Ref.: 201502426217) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
Jonathan Edwards was molded by his extreme sense of duty and by the rigid Puritan environment, which
conspired to make him:
be banished from Massachusetts in the middle of New England¿s ferocious winter in1635.
give New England writing a special identity.
left his comfortable home in town to sojourn with the Indians in the wild interior
continues the Puritan themes in his best-known work, The Day of Doom (1662).
defend strict and gloomy Calvinism from the forces of liberalism springing up around him.
2a Questão (Ref.: 201502426216) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
Anne Bradstreet was inspired by English metaphysical poetry, and her book The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in
America (1650) shows the influence of:
Philip Sidney and Cotton Mather
Edmund Spencer and Cotton Mather
Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney
Edward Taylor and Cotton Mather
Edward Taylor and Philip Sidney
3a Questão (Ref.: 201502818885) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
Anne Bradstreet's poem "Contemplations" reflects ....
her house
her love fir her children
her struggle between world love and the desire of eternal life.
her worries about a sick child
her sadness
4a Questão (Ref.: 201502426222) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
During the Enlightenment period, the American had several large representatives, but one stood out more than
any order. He helped to found both the first public library in America and the Academy of Philadelphia, which
evolved into the University of Pennsylvania. His name is:
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Richard Saunders.
Noah Webster
Benjamin Franklin
5a Questão (Ref.: 201502818879) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
The ____________ was the only religious reference recognized by The Puritans.
Tipitaka
Gita
Torah
Bible
Koran
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In their time, the Boston Brahmins (as the patrician, Harvard-educated class came to be called) supplied the most
respected and genuinely cultivated literary arbiters of the United States. Their lives fitted a pleasant pattern of
wealth and leisure directed by the strong New England work ethic and respect for learning. The most important
Boston Brahmin poets were:
Barry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.
Gary Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gulliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Russell Lowell.
2a Questão (Ref.: 201502426241) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
Many American Romantics believed in the beneficial effects of a close link between humanity and nature. This
belief coexisted with a concern that the spread of industry and new technology threatened the natural world and
isolated people from it. It was a characteristic of:
Aversion to Nature
Aversion to Humanism
Kinship with Reality
Kinship with Nature
Kinship with Enlightenment
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Anne Bradstreet's poem "Contemplations" reflects ....
her struggle between world love and the desire of eternal life.
her house
her worries about a sick child
her sadness
her love fir her children
4a Questão (Ref.: 201502426222) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
During the Enlightenment period, the American had several large representatives, but one stood out more than
any order. He helped to found both the first public library in America and the Academy of Philadelphia, which
evolved into the University of Pennsylvania. His name is:
Thomas Paine
Richard Saunders.
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Noah Webster
5a Questão (Ref.: 201502426216) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
Anne Bradstreet was inspired by English metaphysical poetry, and her book The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in
America (1650) shows the influence of:
Edward Taylor and Philip Sidney
Edmund Spencer and Cotton Mather
Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney
Edward Taylor and Cotton Mather
Philip Sidney and Cotton Mather
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1a Questão (Ref.: 201502426704) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
____________ was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and
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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.
Emily Dickinson
Henry Longfellow
James Lowell
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stephen Crane
2a Questão (Ref.: 201502426237) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
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 secure women¿s rights, provide better care
for the mentally ill, and close prisons.
The organizations to maintain slavery, 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 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 end slavery, stop drunkenness, secure
women¿s rights, provide better care for the mentally ill, and
improve prisons.
3a Questão (Ref.: 201503057036) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
When we read Nathaniel Hawthorne's books , we can clearly identify him
as a:
Puritan
Transcendentalist
Revolutionay
Dark Romantic
Religious
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4a Questão (Ref.: 201502426705) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
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 liberty.
descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive alphabets
and irony.
descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects
and dignity.
descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects
and tyranny.
descriptive vividness and intensity, as well as distinctive dialects
and irony.
5a Questão (Ref.: 201502426688) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
_______________ is an artistic movement that manifests itself in the
second half of the nineteenth century. It is characterized by the intention
of an objective approach to reality and the interest in social issues. The
ideological engagement causes often shaped and situations described
are exaggerated to strengthen social denunciation.
Modernism
Realism
Romanticism
Naturalism
Cubism
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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:
facilities of human nature and give him moral courage.
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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.
complexities of animal nature and give him moral courage.
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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 lawyer / Mississippi River / civilized society
an alcoholic bum / Mississippi Canyon / civilized society
an alcoholic dummy / Mississippi River / civilized society
an alcoholic bum / Mississippi River / civilized society
3a Questão (Ref.: 201502426694) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
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 heaven for breaking the law.
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 hell for no-breaking the law.
4a Questão (Ref.: 201502426664) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
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 _______________.
Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter
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The Minister¿s Black Veil and Moby- Dick
Moby- Dick and Leaves of Grass
The Minister¿s Black Veil and The Scarlet Letter
Moby- Dick and The Scarlet Letter
5a Questão (Ref.: 201503057026) Pontos: 0,1 / 0,1
Choose the option which best completes the following sentence: In Moby
Dick, the sea represents a transitional place
from an uncivilized to a civilized society
in the expression of moral values.
from inner space to outer space
in the levels of sadness characters present
from men´s ideals to women´s ideals.