Literatura inglesa

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1.
	Literature follows social and economic changes a society passes though. It is the case in English Literature, where the main changes that occur in Europe during the XVIIIth century also reflect in the works produced and issued at the time. Order the events and/or the following works in chronological order:
I- Lyrical Ballads.
II- The Industrial Revolution.
III- The age of Raison.
IV- The French Revolution.
Check the right sequence:
	 a)
	III - II - IV - I.
	 b)
	III - I - IV - II.
	 c)
	I - III - IV - II.
	 d)
	I - IV - II - III.
	2.
	The Industrial Revolution provided society with a great number of inventions and developments. Urbanicity and work in factories, and the consequences on people's lives becomes the center of all attention. Literature, as a reflect of social and historical events, is under great influence of the historical and social changes that Great Britain used to know during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.
Consider the following authors:
I- Charles Dickens.
II- Samuel Butler.
III- Oscar Wilde.
Relate them to their corresponding social and/or historical issues:
(    ) His work foccuses esthetics and pleasure in life.
(    ) Dresses criticism against the Victorian period and contests the power of money.
(    ) Under the influence of the ideas of Charles Darwin, the author satirizes criminal punishment, religion and the anthropocentric view of life.
(    ) Concerns about honesty, social classes and life in the city of London for the left out of the good and nice British society.
Check the right sequence:
	 a)
	II - III - I - III.
	 b)
	III - II - I - III.
	 c)
	III - I - II - I.
	 d)
	I - I - II - III.
	3.
	Jane Austen wrote four main novels of the English Literature: "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), "Mansfield Park" (1814), and "Emma" (1815). Austen was daughter of Reverend George Austen, who was also Rector. As a scholar, he encouraged children to love learning. Among the options below, check the right answer:
	 a)
	The author wrote the novels before the Age of Reason.
	 b)
	In the Romantic Period, England was under a great rising period.
	 c)
	Jane Austen is the main author of the so-called Old English Era.
	 d)
	Jane Austen wrote these books in a period of very low prosperity in England.
	4.
	The Industrial Revolution took place in England around the Eighteenth Century. Many reasons lead to this historical and economic event, mainly social disturbances that occurred abroad. Under the reasons that lead to the development of an autonomous social class in England are:
	 a)
	The French Revolution, which restored the power of the Monarchy all over Europe.
	 b)
	The migration of masses of people from the fields and far away country land to cities.
	 c)
	The French Revolution, which granted a greater power to the masses of people.
	 d)
	Great cleavage between royalty and masses of people living under total misery.
	5.
	You are going to teach your studens about the Romantic period (1785-1830). What kind of strategies could you adopt with your students in order to get them interested or make the best of your class. Mark T for True and F for false:
(    ) Asking students to make a research about the Industrial Revolution and then introducing literature.
(    ) Watching a movie with them which covers the period, for example: "Razão e Sensibilidade" (Sense and Sensibility).
(    ) Dividing the group of students into two: the first group watches the movie "Amor e Inocência" (Love and Friendship) and the second one reads the authors biography. Then, make them present and express their points of view.
(    ) Asking students to read "O rei Lear" (King Lear) and relate it to our presente reality.
Check the right answer:
	 a)
	T - T - T - F.
	 b)
	T - F - F - F.
	 c)
	F - T - T - T.
	 d)
	F - T - F - T.
	6.
	Great Britain was a waste and spread land the time the Industrial Revolution developed. A few main rivers cross the land, which allowed the transport of goods and people. When mechanical force rather than agriculture only spread all over. The influence of this transformation was immediate in society under this new order. Literature reveals some details of the changes that occurred in Great Britain and soon spread all over the world. Order the following events in chronological order:
I- In this novel, two sisters represent different ways to face life: one of them, sense, the other, sensibility.
II- He would have become one of the greatest English's poets of all times if only he had grown older that the young age of 26.
III- Beauty in Arts and Nature: this is one of the main subjects of "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
IV- Jane Austen starts preparing her studies, together with her sister Cassandra.
Check the right sequence:
	 a)
	IV - I - III - II.
	 b)
	III - IV - II - I.
	 c)
	II - III - I - IV.
	 d)
	I - II - IV - III.
	7.
	Read the following excerpt, taken from "Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley:
"I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business. He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family".
Mark T for True and F for False:
(    ) The narrator writes in a different place than the birthplace.
(    ) The ancestrality of the narrator seems to play a role in what the narrator has to tell.
(    ) Great importance is given to the values and public affairs in the life of a man.
(    ) Before filling public situations and getting reputation, the father of the narrator had been married and became father of two.
Check the right sequence:
FONTE: SHELLEY, Mary. Frankenstein. Disponível em: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm#chap01. Acesso em: 30 set. 2020.
	 a)
	F - T - T - F.
	 b)
	T - T - T - F.
	 c)
	T - F - F - T.
	 d)
	F - F - T - T.
	8.
	Read the following excerpt, taken from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations:
"I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled".
According to the text, and considering the whole work of Dickens, mark T, for True, and F, for False, in the following assumptions:
(    ) The style of the author is clean, clear and it becomes easy to grab some comics in it.
(    ) Dickens writes good narrative, mixed with some kind of astonishing appointments, such as this one about Romans and noses.
(    ) Different people have different noses so that some of them are to be pulled.
(    ) Great Expectations, opposite to Oliver Twist, does not reflects any biographical facts of Dickens'life.
Check the right sequence:
FONTE: http://www.literaturepage.com/read.php?titleid=greatexpectations&abspage=29&bookmark=1. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2020.
	 a)
	T - F - F - F.
	 b)
	T - T - F - F.
	 c)
	F - F - T - T.
	 d)
	F - T - F - T.
	9.
	The English Literature shows a hole series of horror themes and frick subjects as monsters, vampires and so forth. This is the case for Frankenstein, a novel writen by Mary Shelley, The Vampire, by John William Polidori. Among the choices bellow, check the novel that fits this gender of literature:
Check the right answer:
	 a)
	Lyrical Balads, by Coleridge and Wordsworth.
	 b)
	Hamlet, by William Shakespeare.
	 c)
	Dracula, by Bram Stoker (Abaham).
	 d)
	Don Juan, by Lord Byron.
	10.
	John Keats is a great poet even the greatest England would have ever had if only he did not pass away at the young age of 26. His sensibilityto the beauty in arts and nature was deep and strong. Read the following excerpt, taken from "La Belle Dame sans Merci":'
"See a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever-dew
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too"
Now consider these assumptions:
I- The main subject of the excerpt is a specific flower.
II- If you only consider this excerpt, one may associate beauty to flowers.
III- A lily is a kind of small bird.
IV- Lilies and roses contrast with the feelings and the efemerity shown in the excerpt.
Check the right answer:
FONTE: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44475/la-belle-dame-sans-merci-a-ballad. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2020.
	 a)
	II and IV, only, are correct.
	 b)
	I, only, is correct.
	 c)
	I and III, only, are correct.
	 d)
	II, only, is correct.