Prova 2 Literatura norte americana

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1.
	A few novels or books became as renown than the adventures of the book Moby Dick. The captain and the ocean, the ship and the animals, everyone has already travelled with this story, shall it be during childhood or watching cartoons about it. Read the following statements and check the relation there is between them, when it comes to this story writen by Melville:
I- In Moby Dick, a story of this important author, captain Ahab is an excentric character.
BECAUSE
II- He is physically and emotionally odd: one leg has been chewed by Moby Dick.
Check the CORRECT answer:
	 a)
	I and II are true, and II is an explanation for what is stated in I.
	 b)
	I and II are true, but II isn´t an explanation for I.
	 c)
	I is true, and II isn´t.
	 d)
	II is true, and I isn´t.
	2.
	Different authors wrote about different subjects in the Literary mouvents of the United States. Among this authors, we count Nathanael Hawthorne, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville. The three of them wrote in diverse ways and about different subjects. Associate each author to a respective statements talking about their works:
I- Nathanael Hawthorne.
II-Walt Whitman.
III- Herman Melville.
(    ) In one of his works, a phisically and emotionally odd captain hunts wales.
(    ) In Democratic Vistas, a work produced at the end of his life, he considers american identity and democratic way of life.
(    ) In The Scarlet Letter puritanism appears throught the story, which occurs in Boston.
(    ) His writings are psychological intrigues and human relations and feelings.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
	 a)
	I - II - I - III.
	 b)
	III - I - II - II.
	 c)
	II - I - III - I.
	 d)
	III - II - I - I.
	3.
	Ralph Waldo Emmerson was a consistente writer who wrote about the human person, characteristics of being an individual and relying on oneself. About his preferred gender, check the CORRECT answer:
	 a)
	Poetry only.
	 b)
	Poetry, novel and drama.
	 c)
	Novels and stories.
	 d)
	Essais.
	4.
	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 more natural way of life, as human beings are nature oriented in their everyday´s life.
	 b)
	Individualism which is not exactly focused on being selfish and egoistic, but independent.
	 c)
	A symbolic way of life, because for each impression corresponds an image.
	 d)
	Being romantic because of the great amount of poets in England.
	5.
	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)
	I - II - II - I.
	 c)
	II - II - I - I.
	 d)
	II - I - I - I.
	6.
	Read the following excerpt, taken from "Life in the iron mills", By Rebecca Harding Davis:
"A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, clammy with the breath of crowded human beings. It stifles me. I open the window, and, looking out, can scarcely see through the rain the grocer's shop opposite, where a crowd of drunken Irishmen are puffing Lynchburg tobacco in their pipes. I can detect the scent through all the foul smells ranging loose in the air".
FONTE: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/876/876-h/876-h.htm. Acesso em: 12 abr. 2020
Check the right answer:
	 a)
	In the excerpt, it is possible to preview what the short story is about, by the vocabulary carefully chosen since the very beginning.
	 b)
	The excerpt of the story focuses on the hard work conditions of women in the mill.
	 c)
	This short story is representative of Romanticism in North-American Literature.
	 d)
	The narrator is not aware of what really happens in the story, that's why he asks a question since the very beginning.
	7.
	Naturalism develops from Realism in literature. It focuses on observing and understanding how societies are structured and keep moving. A few names are of great importance when it comes to Naturalism. Charles Darwin, in his species research; Emile Zola and his writings about personality and temper; Frank Norris, for introducing Naturalism in North America. Among the ideas below, check the one that CORRESPONDS to the main aspect of Naturalism in the United States of America:
	 a)
	Diversity of linguistic manifestations, such as slang, colloquial speaking in a specific region.
	 b)
	Hereditary psychic and physic characteristics of people are analyzed or attributed to the characters in the naturalistic stories.
	 c)
	Mainly autobiographies are written during Naturalism in North-American literature.
	 d)
	Virtues of nature and surpassing one's passions are enhanced.
	8.
	Read the following excert of poema:
IN 1 May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals, fallen in the pool,
Made the black water with their beauty gay.
What does it refer to, preciselly? Check the CORRECT answer:
FONTE: https://www.bartleby.com/370/15.html. Acesso em: 1º jul. 2019.
	 a)
	It refers to the north-american poets.
	 b)
	It refers to one of the characteristics of romanticism, which is the moon.
	 c)
	It refers to a flower, but also to discuss the beauty of nature
	 d)
	It refers to a flower in the woods.
	9.
	In a literary mouvement, different values and aspects of life are usually presented. In the American literature, two works get some attention: "Walden" and "Rhodora". Both works show as main subject the beauty and values of nature. They are thus good examples of Romanticism. Associate the following sentences to the right piece:
I- Walden.
II- Rhodora.
(    ) The beauty of the surface of water is a way to measure the depth of our own nature.
(    ) Flowers and their petals are so enchanted that there´s even no need one sees them.
(    ) A lake is compared to a mirror which reflects the human nature.
(    ) Is it really necessary to stop by and admire beauty?
Check the CORRECT sequence:
	 a)
	I - I - II - II.
	 b)
	II - I - I - I.
	 c)
	I - II - I - II.
	 d)
	II - I - II - II.
	10.
	Romanticism was a literary mouvement that occured in North-America after its begining and spreading out through Europe. It actually started in Germany and quickly reached England and France, arriving around 1820 in the USA. It is the result of a rising of national identities and idealism. In the United States, two groups of writers coexisted: the so called pessimistics and the optimistics. Read the following statements and check T for true and F for false, according to what is stated in relation to the romantic mouvement in the north-american literature.
(    ) The pessimistic authors were also called "light" writers.
(    ) The optimistic authors were called "somber" writers.
(    ) Emily Dickingson was neither optimistic nor pessimistic.
(    ) The wonders and the perfection of nature was one of the main topics for north-american romanticism.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
	 a)
	F - T - F -T.
	 b)
	T - F - F - T.
	 c)
	F - F - T - T.
	 d)
	T - T - F - F.
1.
 
A few novels or books became as renown than the adventures of the book Moby 
Dick. The captain and the ocean, the ship and the animals, everyone has already 
travelled with this story, shall it be during childhood or watching cartoons about it. 
Read the foll
owing statements and check the relation there is between them, when it 
comes to this story writen by Melville:
 
 
I
-
 
In Moby Dick, a story of this important author, captain Ahab is an excentric 
character.
 
 
BECAUSE
 
 
II
-
 
He is physically and emotionally odd: o
ne leg has been chewed by Moby Dick.
 
 
Check the CORRECT answer:
 
 
a)
 
I and II are true, and II is an explanation for what is stated in I.
 
 
b)
 
I and II are true, but II isn´t an explanation for I.
 
 
c)
 
I is true, and II isn´t.
 
 
d)
 
II is true, and I isn´t.
 
 
2.
 
Different authors wrote about different subjects in the Literary mouvents of the 
United States. Among this authors, we count Nathanael Hawthorne, Walt Whitman 
and Herman Melville. The three of them wrote in diverse ways and abou
t different 
subjects. Associate each author to a respective statements talking about their works:
 
 
I
-
 
Nathanael Hawthorne.
 
II
-
Walt Whitman.
 
III
-
 
Herman Melville.
 
 
(
 
) In one of his works, a phisically and emotionally odd captain hunts wales.
 
(
 
) In D
emocratic Vistas, a work produced at the end of his life, he considers 
american identity and democratic way of life.
 
(
 
) In The Scarlet Letter puritanism appears throught the story, which occurs in 
Boston.
 
(
 
) His writings are psychological intrigues
 
and human relations and feelings.
 
 
Check the CORRECT sequence:
 
 
a)
 
I 
-
 
II 
-
 
I 
-
 
III.
 
 
b)
 
III 
-
 
I 
-
 
II 
-
 
II.
 
 
c)
 
II 
-
 
I 
-
 
III 
-
 
I.
 
 
d)
 
III 
-
 
II 
-
 
I 
-
 
I.
 
 
3.
 
Ralph Wa
ldo Emmerson was a consistente writer who wrote about the human 
person, characteristics of being an individual and relying on oneself. About his 
preferred gender, check the CORRECT answer:
 
 
a)
 
Poetry only.
 
 
b)
 
Poetry, novel and drama.
 
 
c)
 
Novels and stories.
 
1. A few novels or books became as renown than the adventures of the book Moby 
Dick. The captain and the ocean, the ship and the animals, everyone has already 
travelled with this story, shall it be during childhood or watching cartoons about it. 
Read the following statements and check the relation there is between them, when it 
comes to this story writen by Melville: 
 
I- In Moby Dick, a story of this important author, captain Ahab is an excentric 
character. 
 
BECAUSE 
 
II- He is physically and emotionally odd: one leg has been chewed by Moby Dick. 
 
Check the CORRECT answer: 
 a) 
I and II are true, and II is an explanation for what is stated in I. 
 b) 
I and II are true, but II isn´t an explanation for I. 
 c) 
I is true, and II isn´t. 
 d) 
II is true, and I isn´t. 
 
2. Different authors wrote about different subjects in the Literary mouvents of the 
United States. Among this authors, we count Nathanael Hawthorne, Walt Whitman 
and Herman Melville. The three of them wrote in diverse ways and about different 
subjects. Associate each author to a respective statements talking about their works: 
 
I- Nathanael Hawthorne. 
II-Walt Whitman. 
III- Herman Melville. 
 
( ) In one of his works, a phisically and emotionally odd captain hunts wales. 
( ) In Democratic Vistas, a work produced at the end of his life, he considers 
american identity and democratic way of life. 
( ) In The Scarlet Letter puritanism appears throught the story, which occurs in 
Boston. 
( ) His writings are psychological intrigues and human relations and feelings. 
 
Check the CORRECT sequence: 
 a) 
I - II - I - III. 
 b) 
III - I - II - II. 
 c) 
II - I - III - I. 
 d) 
III - II - I - I. 
 
3. Ralph Waldo Emmerson was a consistente writer who wrote about the human 
person, characteristics of being an individual and relying on oneself. About his 
preferred gender, check the CORRECT answer: 
 a) 
Poetry only. 
 b) 
Poetry, novel and drama. 
 c) 
Novels and stories.