Avaliação Final Objetiva Literatura Norte Americana

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Avaliação Final Objetiva- Literatura Norte- Americana
1. The ways of thinking, the social aspects of a society touching feelings and sensibilities of people, these are usually the topics of this author who talks to women, mainly, their day to day challenges, love stories and narratives. That´s why her books sell easily and she famous all over the world. Passion´s Promise is one of her novels which many people have got to read. Check the CORRECT answer:
A) We are talking about George R. R. Martin.
B) Danielle Steel is the author we are talking about.
C) We are talking about Virginia Woolf.
D) We are talking about R. K. Rowling, author of the famous Harry Potter.
2. The Romantic Era was a period of deep analysis in North-American literature. Authors were mainly occupied with feelings and emotions. While the Western world faced logical thinking and was trying to understand reality through knowledge and reasoning, Romantic authors were looking in another direction. Among the options below, check the one that DOES NOT APPLY to the North-American Romantic era:
A) The Romantic era counts important names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Disney.
B) The American Renaissance is one of the romantic works.
C) So as the writers of the Enlightenment, romantic authors were rebellious.
D) Authors of the Romantic Era in North American Literature classified between optimistic and pessimistic ones.
3. Civil War was a huge bloody wound on the American land. It divided people by the place they lived, their Collor, their way of producing goods. After Civil War a few measures were taken in order to benefit a certain number of people. For the possibilities shown below, mark T for true and F for false:
( ) A changing in the Independence Act transformed life for black people.
( ) A 13th constitutional amendment put an end to slavery in the USA.
( ) The 14th constitutional amendment granted American civil rights to equal all citizens.
( ) The 15th constitutional amendment granted the right to vote for women.
Check the CORRECT answer:
A) F - F - F - T.
B) T - T - T - F.
C) F - T - T - F.
D) T - F - F - T.
4. The nineteenth century was a very changing period when it comes to ideas and feelings or discovering new ways of living. North American literature entered this period and absorbed the two main tendencies of the time: on the one hand, Calvinism and its harsh severity dictated a strict normative way of living according to the puritan religion and the will of God. Which one corresponds to the other one?
Among the choices below, check the one that CORRESPONDS to the other option of the main ideas in the nineteenth century:
A) God is the center of the world.
B) Skepticism and the idea that God did not exist.
C) God is in nature.
D) Skepticism and the desire to live with God.
5. Ralph Valdo Emerson is an American writer who belongs to the Romanticism literary movement. The Rhodora is one of his poems. Read these lines of the poem and then the statements:
"[...] 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; [...]"
I- Some characteristics of Romanticism appear in this excerpt.
II- Nature personifies as the poet addresses himself to the flower.
III- According to the poet, eyes are only made for seeing.
IV- The beauty of the flower is not important.
Check the right answer:
A) I and III are correct.
B) II and IV are correct.
C) I and II are correct.
D) III and IV are correct.
6. As you know, it is important for your study to be aware of American writers and their related books or works. Some of these writers who represent the American literary mouvement, are Henningway, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, all three worldwide known and read. When it comes to the books each one of them wrote, consider the following author and their writings and relate author and book:
I- Ernest Henningway.
II- Gertrude Stein.
III- James Joyce.
( ) The making of Americans.
( ) The man and the sea.
( ) Ulysses.
( ) Dubliners.
Check the CORRECT sequence:
A) II - I - III - III.
B) III - I - II - II.
C) I - II - II - III.
D) II - II - III - I.
7. Since the very beginning of the new country which has become the United States of America, women occupied a main role. This has lead to a certain number of female figures who stand out in the new formed society. Among them were some writers and also characters represented in novels of the time. Among the choices below, check the CORRECT answer:
A) Anne Hutchinson became popular due to her ideas about slavery.
B) Anne Hutchinson was a proeminent figure whose ideas were easily accepted at her time.
C) Local leaders appreciated the ideals of liberty and freedom Hutchinson pread.
D) She was prosecuted and eventually killed by natives, but her ideas spread out through the time.
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) II and IV, only, are correct.
B) I and II, only, are correct.
C) II, III and IV are correct.
D) I and III, only, are correct.
9. European arrived in America and settled down their first colonies in order to stay and explore the land. They were initially under the commandemant of British leaders and sometimes also representatives of the church or the King. About the first settlements of white European in the new discovered America, The United States of America today, check the CORRECT answer:
A) First settlements in America took only place in the Eighteenth century.
B) Slaver ships made first settlements in America.
C) First men to settle in the new country were under the commandment of John Fitzgerald.
D) Officially, John Smith conducted the first settlements of European people in America.
10. Jeff Kinney is a contemporary writer worldwide sold and known. Usually an author gets his/her celebrity by one novel or book he writes. This author is known worldwide for one book people read all over the world, perhaps even you read it. This book among the choices below. Check the CORRECT answer:
A) His romantic poetry.
B) Diary of a grapefruit.
C) His book Moby Dick.
D) Diary of a Wimpy kid.
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 uniqueexperience 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 is a true proposition, and II is a false proposition.
B) Statements I and II are true propositions, and II is a correct justification for I.
C) Statements I and II are true propositions, but II is not a correct justification for I.
D) Statements I and II are false propositions.
12. (ENADE, 2005) Leia trechos da carta-resposta de um cacique indígena à sugestão, feita pelo Governo do Estado da Virgínia (EUA), de que uma tribo de índios enviasse alguns jovens para estudar nas escolas dos brancos.
(...) Nós estamos convencidos, portanto, de que os senhores desejam o nosso bem e agradecemos de todo o coração. Mas aqueles que são sábios reconhecem que diferentes nações têm concepções diferentes das coisas e, sendo assim, os senhores não ficarão ofendidos ao saber que a vossa ideia de educação não é a mesma que a nossa. (...) Muitos dos nossos bravos guerreiros foram formados nas escolas do Norte e aprenderam toda a vossa ciência. Mas, quando eles voltaram para nós, eram maus corredores, ignorantes da vida da floresta e incapazes de suportar o frio e a fome. Não sabiam caçar o veado, matar o inimigo ou construir uma cabana e falavam nossa língua muito mal. Eles eram, portanto, inúteis. (...) Ficamos extremamente agradecidos pela vossa oferta e, embora não possamos aceitá-la, para mostrar a nossa gratidão concordamos que os nobres senhores de Virgínia nos enviem alguns de seus jovens, que lhes ensinaremos tudo que sabemos e faremos deles homens.
FONTE: BRANDÃO, Carlos Rodrigues. O que é educação. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1984.
A relação entre os dois principais temas do texto da carta e a forma de abordagem da educação privilegiada pelo cacique está representada por:
A) Identidade e história / educação formal.
B) Sabedoria e política / educação difusa.
C) Educação e cultura / educação assistemática.
D) Ideologia e filosofia / educação superior.