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1.
	People who settled in America liked to read books and also, some of them, to write. Thus, a new literature which one can call American Literature arrose. This new literature presented some characteristics which allow us to separate it from, for instance, British literature. Thus, we talk about native literature, a literature which flourished in America mainly in the late XIX century. About native literature, check true or false (classifique V para as sentenças verdadeiras e F para as falsas):
(    ) Native literature was a transition between oral and written Indian literature.
(    ) Native literature was a stylish written literature before white European arrived.
(    ) Native literature or the literature of North American Indians was written before black people arrived.
(    ) Native literature was a mixture of cultures: oral Indian tradition set into English words.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
	 a)
	V - F - F - V.
	 b)
	F - V - V - F.
	 c)
	F - F - V - F.
	 d)
	V - V - V - F.
	2.
	Read the following excerpt from the poem: "A Bird, came down the walk", from Emily Dickinson:
A Bird came down the Walk
- He did not know I saw
- He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass
- And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass - [...]
Analyze the statements below, which refer to the excerpt of Dickinson:
I- This excerpt of poem is a good representative of the north-american Romanticism and Transcendentalism mouvements.
BECAUSE
II- Elements of nature, emotions, a certain escape from reality are present.
Check the right answer:
FONTE: KURAN, Wendi. Becoming America. OER, 2019, p. 1490.
	 a)
	I is a true statement and II is a true statement, I justifies II.
	 b)
	I is a true statement and II is a false statement.
	 c)
	I is a true statement and II is a true statement, II justifies I.
	 d)
	I is a true statement and II is a true statementthere is no relation between them.
	3.
	When the British puritans arrived on the East coast of the United States they did not considered it, but native people did have their own beliefs, their myths and own literature. The only thing is that they did not have a written system which allowed them to impose it to the White newly arrived from Europe and its long tradition of poetry, novels and essais of all tipes. Associate the items, according to if they refer to the native or to european writings:
I- The native.
II- The European.
(    ) Subject of their first works were mainly autobiographies telling their life and soufferings.
(    ) Their works consisted of mainly descriptions and landscape.
(    ) Wrote novels where adventure and exploring the new land was common.
(    ) Even if a certain subject did exist it was only transmitted oraly from generation to generation.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
	 a)
	I - II - II - I.
	 b)
	I - I - II - II.
	 c)
	II - II - I - I.
	 d)
	II - I - I - II.
	4.
	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)
	Virtues of nature and surpassing one's passions are enhanced.
	 b)
	Hereditary psychic and physic characteristics of people are analyzed or attributed to the characters in the naturalistic stories.
	 c)
	Diversity of linguistic manifestations, such as slang, colloquial speaking in a specific region.
	 d)
	Mainly autobiographies are written during Naturalism in North-American literature.
	5.
	Post-Modernism, as Modernism in North-American Literature, was a rich period while style shows a diversity in methods and works. Some authors used to introduce a great number of cultural references, linguistic strategies that allow the text to "speak" to the reader by multiple voices, and cultural or literary references. Choose among the authors presented below the one excelling in these proceedings:
	 a)
	William Carlos William.
	 b)
	Thomas Stearns Eliot.
	 c)
	Rhoetke.
	 d)
	Apes.
	6.
	Literature corresponds to what a society is, its 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 each other, people are eager 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 different 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.
(    ) J. K. Rowling.
(    ) Danielle Steel.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
	 a)
	IV - III - II - I.
	 b)
	III - IV - I - II.
	 c)
	II - I - III - IV.
	 d)
	I - II - IV - III.
	7.
	Consider the following authors:
I- Ralph Waldo Emmerson.
II- Henry David Thoreau.
Associate the items:
(    ) Walden presents very beautiful descriptions of nature.
(    ) In the poem, it is not only about a flower, but it is also about beauty.
(    ) Apology of nature is one of the strongest characteristics of Romanticism and this work is an example of it.
(    ) I do what I want, was the motto of this writer, but also the author of some poetry.
Check the right answer:
	 a)
	I - I - II - I.
	 b)
	II - I - II - I.
	 c)
	II - II - I - I.
	 d)
	I - II - I - II.
	8.
	According to a North-American native tale and belief, the Earth has a particular conception. This results from the native's observing nature and its phenomena. Read the text that follows:
"There is another world under this earth. It is like this one in every way. The animals, the plants, and the people are the same, but the seasons are different. The streams that come down from the mountains are the trails by which we reach this underworld. The springs at their head are the doorways by which we enter it. But in order to enter the other world, one must fast and then go to the water, and have one of the underground people for a guide. We know that the seasons in the underground world are different because the water in the spring is always warmer in winter than the air in this world; and in summer the water is cooler" (KURANT, 2019, p. 19).
According to the text, it is possible to state that:
I- Native American people conceived the world under a binary structure: our Earth, and the underground.
II- The underground world is totally different from the Earth we know.
III- Based upon natural elements, native people establish rituals in order to penetrate the underground world.
IV- Temperature of water is always higher in Winter than in Summer.
Check the right answer:
FONTE: KURANT, Wendy. Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution. Galileo: University System of Georgia, 2019.
	 a)
	I and III, only, are correct.
	 b)
	I and II, only, are correct.
	 c)
	II and IV, only, are correct.
	 d)
	II, III and IV are correct.
	9.
	Charles Brockden Brown and Washington Irving were North-American writers who wrote, mainly, gothic novel. The authors wrote a few books. Check the titles below and associate the subject to the novel and/or the author:
I- Wieland, by Charles Brockden Brown.
II- Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving.
(    ) Suspens, mistery and horror prevail in this self-combustion story.
(    ) Some historical background is attributed to America by the story.
(    ) The new environment was one of the causes for creating a supposed past for the land.
(    ) Questionning normality and weird experiences prevail in the works.
Check theright answer:
	 a)
	I - II - II - I.
	 b)
	I - II - I - II.
	 c)
	II - I - II - I.
	 d)
	II - II - I - I.
	10.
	At the begining of the XXth century, America faced a great excitement and optimism vague. This lead to a few changes and creativity arrose. Among other arts, we can talk about the irruption of jazz in music and, in literature, new ways of expressing feelings, ideas, dreams. Read the following sentences and check T for true and F for false:
(    ) During American Modernism, the authors started talking about modern way of living in their works.
(    ) The Great Depression is at the source of the optimism put in the books of this period.
(    ) A certain confusion which was in the air appears in the books of this period.
(    ) Style of writings reflects the difficulties and doubts that society faced at the time.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
	 a)
	F - T - F - F.
	 b)
	T - F - T - T.
	 c)
	T - T - F - F.
	 d)
	F - F - T - T.
	11.
	(ENADE, 2017) A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day (DICKINSON, 1924).
Taking the poem into account, analyze the following statements and the relationship between them:
I- By reading Dickinson's poem, one has the possibility to understand the relationship the poet bears with her raw material, which is language.
BECAUSE
II- The poem, among other possibilities, reveals how Dickinson sees her poetic creative process as a unique experience of bringing words to life.
Considering the statements, choose the correct option:
FONTE: DICKINSON, E. Complete Poems. Boston: Little Brown, 1924. Disponível em: http://www.bartleby.com. Acesso em: 25 jul. 2017.
	 a)
	Statements I and II are false propositions.
	 b)
	Statements I and II are true propositions, and II is a correct justification for I.
	 c)
	Statements I is a true proposition, and II is a false proposition.
	 d)
	Statements I and II are true propositions, but II is not a correct justification for I.
	12.
	(ENADE, 2017) During an American Literature survey course at an American university, there was a racial incident at the university library. It was bad enough to make the President of the university send a message condemning racism and improper behavior and to lead many African American students hold protests and marches on campus.
In the final exam period, the professor responsible for the survey course exhorted students that such incidents show why we need to study literature, specifically literature of diverse voices from the past. He mentioned some texts which directly addressed white readership about the hypocrisy of racial bias, as a prime example of the type of literary work that the offending student, and all students, should be reading so as to interrogate critically their own prejudices and to nullify or respond thoughtfully to such hateful acts. He also encouraged them to be activists in addition to scholars, to speak up against injustice while remembering the lessons of earlier American culture wars.
As the ensuing final project presentations demonstrated, he needn't have bothered. The class had already internalized these lessons and applied them to their anthology and literary recovery projects. These projects recovered forgotten or neglected voices and put them into conversation with our world of 2015 or grouped together activist or subversive texts from American writers. Regardless of the topic they chose, these students were making pre-1900 American literature speak to their time as well as to its own. In essence, this was the entire point of the survey course, which, throughout the semester, worked to surface issues of canon : who's in, who's out, and who decides, and what points in history.
FONTE: THOMSON, T; TONTI, K. American Literature Time Machine: Toward a Democratic Canon in the Undergratuate Survey Course. American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. v. 8, n. 4, p. 14-38, 2017 (adaptado).
Segundo esse texto, o professor de Literatura norte-americana repensou o currículo e a sua prática na sala de aula a partir de um incidente ocorrido na universidade onde leciona. A proposta do professor foi:
	 a)
	Resgatar obras e autores do passado que dialogassem com questões socioculturais atuais e cuja leitura levasse a questionamentos críticos acerca de posicionamentos preconceituosos no presente.
	 b)
	Apresentar a seus alunos as obras canônicas da literatura norte-americana para que pudessem conhecer a cultura daquele país.
	 c)
	Apresentar a seus alunos as obras canônicas da literatura norte-americana para que pudessem conhecer a cultura daquele país.
	 d)
	Estudar em suas aulas de literatura as obras de autores norte-americanos que tratassem do tema do preconceito racial.
1.
 
People who settled in America liked to read books and also, some of them, to write. 
Thus, a new literature which one can call American Literature arrose. This new 
literature presented some characteristics which allow us to separate it from, for 
instance, B
ritish literature. Thus, we talk about native literature, a literature which 
flourished in America mainly in the late XIX century. About native literature, check 
true or false (classifique V para as sentenças verdadeiras e F para as falsas):
 
 
(
 
) Native
 
literature was a transition between oral and written Indian literature.
 
(
 
) Native literature was a stylish written literature before white European arrived.
 
(
 
) Native literature or the literature of North American Indians was written before 
black 
people arrived.
 
(
 
) Native literature was a mixture of cultures: oral Indian tradition set into English 
words.
 
 
Check the CORRECT sequence:
 
 
a)
 
V 
-
 
F 
-
 
F 
-
 
V.
 
 
b)
 
F 
-
 
V 
-
 
V 
-
 
F.
 
 
c)
 
F 
-
 
F 
-
 
V 
-
 
F.
 
 
d)
 
V 
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V 
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V 
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F.
 
 
2.
 
Read the following excerpt from the poem: "A Bird, came down the walk", from 
Emily Dickinson:
 
 
A Bird came down the Walk
 
-
 
He did not know I saw
 
-
 
He bit an Angleworm in halves
 
And ate the fellow, raw,
 
 
And then he drank a Dew
 
F
rom a convenient Grass
 
-
 
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
 
To let a Beetle pass 
-
 
[...]
 
 
Analyze the statements below, which refer to the excerpt of Dickinson:
 
 
I
-
 
This excerpt of poem is a good representative of the north
-
american Romanticism 
and Trans
cendentalism mouvements.
 
 
BECAUSE
 
 
II
-
 
Elements of nature, emotions, a certain escape from reality are present.
 
 
Check the right answer:
 
 
FONTE: KURAN, Wendi. Becoming America. OER, 2019, p. 1490.
 
 
a)
 
I is a true statement and II is a true statement, I justifies II.
 
 
b)
 
I is a true statement and II is a false statement.
 
 
c)
 
I is a true statement and II is a true statement, II justifies I.
 
 
d)
 
I is a true statement and II is a true statementthere is no relation between them.
 
1. People who settled in America liked to read books and also, some of them, to write. 
Thus, a new literature which one can call American Literature arrose. This new 
literature presented some characteristics which allow us to separate it from, for 
instance, British literature. Thus, we talk about native literature, a literature which 
flourished in America mainly in the late XIX century. About native literature, check 
true or false (classifique V para as sentenças verdadeiras e F para as falsas): 
 
( ) Native literature was a transition between oral and written Indian literature. 
( ) Native literature was a stylish written literature before white European arrived. 
( ) Native literature or the literature of North American Indians was written before 
black people arrived. 
( ) Native literature was a mixture of cultures: oral Indian tradition set into English 
words. 
 
Check the CORRECT sequence: 
 a) 
V - F - F - V. 
 b) 
F - V - V - F. 
 c) 
F - F - V - F.d) 
V - V - V - F. 
 
2. Read the following excerpt from the poem: "A Bird, came down the walk", from 
Emily Dickinson: 
 
A Bird came down the Walk 
- He did not know I saw 
- He bit an Angleworm in halves 
And ate the fellow, raw, 
 
And then he drank a Dew 
From a convenient Grass 
- And then hopped sidewise to the Wall 
To let a Beetle pass - [...] 
 
Analyze the statements below, which refer to the excerpt of Dickinson: 
 
I- This excerpt of poem is a good representative of the north-american Romanticism 
and Transcendentalism mouvements. 
 
BECAUSE 
 
II- Elements of nature, emotions, a certain escape from reality are present. 
 
Check the right answer: 
 
FONTE: KURAN, Wendi. Becoming America. OER, 2019, p. 1490. 
 a) 
I is a true statement and II is a true statement, I justifies II. 
 b) 
I is a true statement and II is a false statement. 
 c) 
I is a true statement and II is a true statement, II justifies I. 
 d) 
I is a true statement and II is a true statementthere is no relation between them.