Literatura Norte-Americana Avaliação Final (Objetiva)

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Acadêmico: Cristiano Moreira (797752)
Disciplina: Literatura Norte-Americana (LLI45)
Avaliação: Avaliação Final (Objetiva) - Individual Semipresencial ( Cod.:639044) ( peso.:3,00)
Prova: 17446278
Nota da Prova: 9,00
Legenda: Resposta Certa Sua Resposta Errada Questão Cancelada
1. America represented for many pillgrims the accomplishment of a dream, the search of a place where a new life
could be started, away from oppression and the harrash conditions of life that they fled in Europe. This new life and
way of living they were allowed to start on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean provided them with some feelings
and manners to conceive the world. Check the CORRECT answer, among the possibilities given bellow, the one
best suits this new way:
 a) A symbolic way of life, because for each impression corresponds an image.
 b) Being romantic because of the great amount of poets in England.
 c) Individualism which is not exactly focused on being selfish and egoistic, but independent.
 d) A more natural way of life, as human beings are nature oriented in their everyday´s life.
2. When European people colonized the East coast of America they confronted to people that were already living
there. These people were associated to Indian, as one considered to be in India. But the people they met when
arriving consisted of a great number of groups following their own rules, with their traditions and beliefs, ways of
living and knowledge. Analyze the sentences below and then relate them to the corresponding assumption:
I- The British early litterature.
II- The native people´s literature.
( ) Their literature was actually not writen in their own language
( ) Their literature was a series of stories and essais mainly describing the land and people.
( ) A long oral tradition of myths and personalities characterized these first writings in English.
( ) They started to write about the beginings of British people, their leaders and the possibilities the land had to
offer.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
 a) I - I - I - II.
 b) I - II - I - II.
 c) II - I - II - I.
 d) II - II - II - I.
3. Consider that you have a class where you are going to teach your students about post-modern literature. In your
class you would have to choose one or two authors and make your students practice, either the English language
and american literature. Check T for true and F for false according to their relation with the post-modern period in
american literature:
( ) I would certainly read Pokahontas with them.
( ) I would read Walt Whitman´s poetry and explore its thematics.
( ) I would choose excerpts from "Just above my head" (James Baldwin) for its new themes for the time it was
published.
( ) For children I would choose "The secret footprints", writen by Julia Alvarez. 
Check the CORRECT sequence:
 a) T - F - T - T.
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 b) F - F - T - T.
 c) F - T - F - T.
 d) T - T - F - F.
4. Read the following excert:
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerers
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture.
Check the CORRECT answer:
FONTE: http://beespace.net/pity-the-nation/. Acesso em: 21 jul. 2019.
 a) It is a compliment to the way people live.
 b) It compares people and animals in a critical way.
 c) It dresses a critic to the way people torture themselves.
 d) Henningway, the author, relates people to animals for their behavior.
Literature corresponds to what a society is, it´s practices, its ways of thinking, the social aspects touching feelings
and sensibilities of people. Usually, when a book and the aims or demands of people match to each other, people
are eaguer to read it, to talk about it, because they really feel inside the story or that a bond of humanity gets them
together. When considering diferent periods of time and the books that were or are famous in this period, associate
the books below to their author:
I- Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone.
II- Passion´s Promise.
III- The Thomas Berryman Number.
IV- A Song for Lya and Others.
( ) James Patterson.
( ) George R. R. Martin.
( ) R. K. Rowling.
( ) Danielle Steel.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
 a) III - IV - I - II.
 b) III - I - II - IV.
 c) II - IV - III - I.
 d) I - IV - II - III.
 * Observação: A questão número 5 foi Cancelada.
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6. The Constitution of the United States was supposed to concede the same rights to everyone living in the country.
Nevertheless, when taking a closer look at the line cracking the land into two: the North, on one side, and the South,
on the other, one can distinguish different levels of citizenship: white people and their rights, black people and their
inherited duties. In relation to these inequalities of opportunities for people at the time, check true or false
(classifique V para as sentenças verdadeiras e F para as falsas):
( ) After the end of Civil War, black people from the South had some of their rights taken from them.
( ) The Constitution of the United States declared the country free of slavery.
( ) Women were declared equal to men and had the right to vote granted.
( ) Tax and a different way of living were two other reasons for segregation in the United States.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
 a) V - V - V - F.
 b) V - F - V - F.
 c) V - V - F - V.
 d) F - V - F - F.
7. Ralph Wando Emmerson and Henry David Toureau were two important writers at their time, but in the field of
literature, each one specialized in specific ways. Hierunder you find a series of facts or behaviors of these two main
representative of the America Literature. Associate the writer to the writings which are supposed to be his own:
I- Ralph Wando Emmerson.
II- Henry David Toureau.
( ) He lived during almost two years completely isolated from people.
( ) He wrote a few essais where he discussed about humanity.
( ) Besides writing essais, he also wrote some poetry, for instance: The Rhodora.
( ) The Rhodora reflects north-american romanticism spirit.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
 a) II - I - II - II.
 b) II - I - I - I.
 c) I - II - II - I.
 d) II - II - I - I.
8. Danielle Steel is a worldwide celebrity. Her books got in the taste of different people from all levels and ages. Such
an author usually presents a series of characteristics that lead to this love for her writings all over the world. Among
the following characteristics of Danielle Steel one option better fits her, check the CORRECT answer:
 a) Her novels focuse on men.
 b) Her first novel was The Gift, published in 1994.
 c) Is a popular and easy to read writer.
 d) Women in her novels never get to their ends.
9. Nathanael Hawthorn is the author of the novel The Scarlet Letter. In this book, some characters represent different
subjects which were of great importance for the American of those times. In a novel, different subjects are
presented and discussed, according to the story, the characters, the way of moving ahead the story. Was this the
case for The Scarlet Letter? Read the following statements and check the relation there is between them:
I- Psychological anguish is a constant in the novel.
BECAUSE
II- From the beginning of the story and the prison of Hester puritanism and its valuesappear.
Check the CORRECT answer:
 a) I and II are true, and II is complementary to I.
 b) I is a true statement, and II is not.
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 c) I and II are false.
 d) I is a false statement, and II is a true one.
10. A nation is the result of the efforts of many people. Some people assume more responsibilities and feel they´ve got
more duties than the others do. In the United States, some important names to retain are, among many others,
John Smith, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. If we talk about George Washington, we know that he was
a great man in the history and the american literature. About George Washington, check true or false for each
sentence:
( ) He represented a great role in the setting of the American Constitution.
( ) After his death and following his will, freedom was conceded to his slaves.
( ) In his last will he asked for the freedom of the American people.
( ) He liked to talk about religion, that´s the reason why a church´s got his name.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
 a) F - F - F - V.
 b) V - V - F - F.
 c) V - F - V - F.
 d) F - V - F - V.
Prova finalizada com 9 acertos e 1 questões erradas.