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1.
	In Walden a series of themes are present. Read the following excert: 
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only
the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what
was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was
quite necessary". 
Mark T for True and F for False:
(    ) Life in the walden is better than life in the city, which is not life at all.
(    ) Life is not a pleasant think.
(    ) Meditation is the only subject in this excert.
(    ) Escaping is the point here: escape to live deliberately.
Check the CORRECT answer:
FONTE: https://www.bartleby.com/370/15.html. Acesso em: 1º jul. 2019.
	 a)
	T - T - F - F.
	 b)
	F - F - F - T.
	 c)
	T - F - F - T.
	 d)
	F - F - T - F.
	2.
	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)
	II - I - II - II.
	 d)
	I - II - I - II.
	3.
	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 values appear.
Check the CORRECT answer:
	 a)
	I is a false statement, and II is a true one.
	 b)
	I and II are true, and II is complementary to I.
	 c)
	I and II are false.
	 d)
	I is a true statement, and II is not.
	4.
	We all know how to tell a story, as narrative is one of the faculties we seem to be born with. Since childhood, the first thing toddlers know to do all the time is telling parents what they have or what they have not been through all day long. When it comes to the literary gender, the novel, we are also faced to stories and telling, but some proceedings are to be applied. Order the steps of a novel and narrative bellow, in an order that corresponds to the perfect plot:
I- The conflict/edge.
II- The solution(s).
III- Tension and conflict growing.
IV- Situation.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
	 a)
	I - III - IV - II.
	 b)
	II - IV - III - I.
	 c)
	IV - II - I - III.
	 d)
	IV - III - I - II.
	5.
	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:
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	 a)
	It refers to a flower, but also to discuss the beauty of nature
	 b)
	It refers to a flower in the woods.
	 c)
	It refers to one of the characteristics of romanticism, which is the moon.
	 d)
	It refers to the north-american poets.
	6.
	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 is true, and II isn´t.
	 b)
	II is true, and I isn´t.
	 c)
	I and II are true, and II is an explanation for what is stated in I.
	 d)
	I and II are true, but II isn´t an explanation for I.
	7.
	The people who settled in America had already lived, in Europe, in the contact of literature, role play in theathers and so forth. Thus, reading and writing were quite usual among them. Since the very begining of the settlements, the new American forming people enjoyed reading and following the journey of characters in the books they read. Among the genders below, check the CORRECT answer:
	 a)
	Novel was the ideal gender for writers settled in the US, as people really liked it.
	 b)
	Poetry was since the begining the only gender American use to read.
	 c)
	The first literature developped in the US was shakespearean drama.
	 d)
	The first five hundred years literature of America were actually the stories of the native people.
	8.
	Read the following excert from the poem Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emmerson:
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.   
About Beauty, check the CORRECT answer:
FONTE: https://www.bartleby.com/370/15.html. Acesso em: 1º jul. 2019.
	 a)
	The sages don't know what beauty really is.
	 b)
	Beauty is not seen with the eyes.
	 c)
	Beauty is the only reason for the flower to exist, and it's enough by itself.
	 d)
	Beauty doesn't need to exist.
	9.
	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)
	II - I - III - I.
	 b)
	III - I - II - II.
	 c)
	I - II - I - III.
	 d)
	III - II - I - I.
	10.
	Consider the excerpt bellow: 
"An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify" (THOREAU, 1854, p. 49). 
Read the following sentences and mark T for true and F for false:
(    ) It refers to the experience the author had about living in the woods.
(    ) It is related to the individualism, which characterizes the period.
(    ) It is a Strong example of the transcendentalismo.
(    ) It is the work of Whitman that best represents the individualism during that period.Check the CORRECT sequence:
FONTE: THOREAU. Walden. 1854. Disponível em: http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/gu000205.pdf. Acesso em: 1º jul. 2019
	 a)
	F - F - T - T.
	 b)
	T - F - F - F.
	 c)
	F - T - F - F.
	 d)
	T - T - T - F.