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1.
	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.
	2.
	According to some literature critics, the Works of John Keats show a deep care with contents and also form. This appears throgh the way the author refers to women, life, a conscious feeling that beauty reaches an end. This aspect leads to a great suffering impression in his writings. If you had to talk about these feelings and form of the English literature in class, you would certainly talk about this author and masterpiece or theme. Relate author and work:
I- John Keats.
II- Mary Shelley.
(    ) Horror, dramatic situations, freaking creatures.
(    ) Love and beauty, women, nature and life.
(    ) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(    ) Beauty in arts, love of the past, nature and sensuality.
Check the right sequence:
	 a)
	I - I - II - II.
	 b)
	II - I - I - II.
	 c)
	I - II - II - I.
	 d)
	II - I - I - I.
	3.
	In this novel, five sisters live with their mother in England. Mrs. Sutherland, the mother, gets not enough of looking for good pretendents to marry her daughters, granting they have a nice future assured. But her plans are not exactly what the girls expect, especially Elizabeth, who really desires a great life. This is the main intrigue of the following novel:
Check the right answer:
	 a)
	John Keats, under great influence of the Greek classics and some writers of the XVIth century.
	 b)
	A poem writen by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
	 c)
	It's the main content of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen.
	 d)
	We are talking about Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.
	4.
	Social, political, historical circumstances may be of great influence on the life and writings of an author. This is due to the fact that the person in real life expresses in literature a part of what he or she is. Take Jane Austen and her works. Order the events bellow according to a chronological order:
I- Pride and Prejudice is issued.
II- Got celebrity as a novelist at her time.
III- Had the first book writen at the age of 17.
IV- Cassandra was her best friend ever.
Check the right sequence:
	 a)
	IV - III - I - II.
	 b)
	I - III - IV - II.
	 c)
	II - I - III - IV.
	 d)
	III - IV - II - I.
	5.
	Mary Shelley wrote the famous novel Frankenstein. In the novel she sets up a creature, relating to transformations that the European society was undergoing during the period following the French and the Industrial Revolutions. Read the following assumptions and order them in time:
I- Cloning people may be compared to the freakness of Frankenstein.
II- Major scientific and industrial discoveries take place.
III- Frankenstein tries to explain the new industrial and scientific way of life.
IV- Victor Frankenstein conceives the creature, the creature becomes Frankenstein.
Check the right sequence:
	 a)
	IV - I - II - III.
	 b)
	I - II - III - IV.
	 c)
	III - IV - I - II.
	 d)
	II - III - IV - I.
	6.
	Oliver Twist é um menino órfão que vive em instituições de caridade até seus nove anos. É quando ele decide fugir para Londres para viver outras experiências. Além de "Oliver Twist", este autor escreveu outras obras. Sobre o exposto, classifique V para as sentenças verdadeiras e F para as falsas:
(    ) Trata-se de Jonathan Swift, o que leva com frequência a confundir autor e personagem.
(    ) O autor desta obra é Jane Austen, que conheceu na vida real o menino Oliver.
(    ) Charles Dickens variava em seus escritos do humor à consciência do poder do mal e denúncia de problemas sociais.
(    ) Este autor, que viveu na época puritana da história da Inglaterra vitoriana, escreveu obras repletas de moralismo e, de certo modo, melodramáticas.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA:
	 a)
	V - V - F - F.
	 b)
	F - F - V - V.
	 c)
	V - F - F - V.
	 d)
	F - V - V - F.
	7.
	Romanticism occured between aproximately 1785 and 1830. This period occured under great transforming processes in England and in whole Europe. Poets and writers at this time were concerned with the changes society was facing. According to this, read the options below:
Check the right answer:
	 a)
	John Keats was very concern with the perfect aesthetics of his horror creatures.
	 b)
	This period knows some influence of the greek classics from the Hellenistic period.
	 c)
	Frankenstein is a long poem where a critics to hypocrisie, opression and greed is dressed.
	 d)
	Two main revolutions influenced the period: The Independence of the USA and the Cruzades.
	8.
	Leia o texto a seguir:
"O século XIX, como é sabido, mudou de forma radical o modus vivendi do mundo ocidental, sobretudo, nos grandes centros urbanos da Europa, tendência que se espalhou, posteriormente, por diversas outras regiões, desencadeando uma transformação efetiva da sociedade em geral. A era industrial, alavancada pela economia capitalista e pela mentalidade positivista, desencadeou, assim, um desenvolvimento tecnológico sem precedentes, resultando não apenas numa nova sociabilidade, mas também em outros modos de interpretar a realidade e seus múltiplos sentidos [...]."
Sobre a obra do escritor Charles Dickens, analise as sentenças a seguir:
I- Oliver Twist reflete as preocupações e mazelas de uma criança na Grã-Bretanha do século XIX.
II- A economia capitalista e a mentalidade positivista são determinantes no destino do menino Oliver, órfão, de origem humilde, mas que integra o sistema quando adulto.
III- A obra "Grandes Esperanças" reflete apenas as preocupações e os melindres do sistema educacional inglês no século XIX.
IV- Charles Dickens é um narrador de peripécias da infância, o que mostram as duas obras: Oliver Twist e Grandes Esperanças.
Assinale a alternativa CORRETA:
FONTE: SILVA, Maurício; MOREIRA, Márcia. A crítica social de Charles Dickens nas obras "Grandes Esperanças" e "Oliver Twist". Linguagens - Revista de Letras, Artes e Comunicação ISSN 1981-9943 Blumenau, v. 3, n. 2, p. 126-134, mai./ago. 2009, p. 126
	 a)
	As sentenças II e IV estão corretas.
	 b)
	Somente a sentença II está correta.
	 c)
	Somente a sentença I está correta.
	 d)
	As sentenças I, II e III estão corretas.
	9.
	Leia os versos a seguir, extraídos do poema "Prophety":
"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales".
Sobre o exposto, classifique V para as sentenças verdadeiras e F para as falsas:
(    ) A obra pertence ao Romantismo inglês.
(    ) Trata-se de um verso escrito por Jane Austen, no final da Era Vitoriana.
(    ) Este autor escreveu poemas e foi muito admirado pela rainha Vitória.
(    ) Alfred Lord Tennyson começou seus estudos em Cambridge, mas não chegou a terminá-los, devido à morte de seu pai.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA:
FONTE: Revista Prosa Verso e Arte.Disponível em: http://www.prosaversoearte.com. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2020.
	 a)
	V - V - F - F.
	 b)
	F - V - V - F.
	 c)
	F - F - V - V.
	 d)
	V - F - V - V.
	10.
	The Industrial Revolution provided society with a great number of inventions and developments. Life changed from a major agricultural society to urbanicity and work in factories. Literature, as a reflect of social and historical events, is under great influence of these 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 issue:
(    ) His work foccuses esthetics and pleasure in life.
(    ) Dresses criticism against the Victorian period and contests the power money.
(    ) Under the influence of the ideas of Charles Darwin, the author satirizes criminal punishement, religion and the anthropocentered 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 - I - I - III.
	 b)
	II - I - III - II.
	 c)
	I - III - III - II.
	 d)
	III - I - II - I.
1
.
 
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 no
se 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 n
oses 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&a
bspage=29&book
mark=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.
 
 
2.
 
According to some literature critics, the Works of John Keats show a deep care with 
contents and also form. This appears throgh the way the author refers to women, life, 
a 
conscious feeling that beauty reaches an end. This aspect leads to a great suffering 
impression in his writings. If you had to talk about these feelings and form of the 
English literature in class, you would certainly talk about this author and masterpiece
 
or theme. Relate author and work:
 
 
I
-
 
John Keats.
 
II
-
 
Mary Shelley.
 
 
(
 
) Horror, dramatic situations, freaking creatures.
 
(
 
) Love and beauty, women, nature and life.
 
(
 
) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
 
(
 
) Beauty in arts, love of the past, nature an
d sensuality.
 
 
Check the right sequence:
 
 
a)
 
I 
-
 
I 
-
 
II 
-
 
II.
 
 
b)
 
II 
-
 
I 
-
 
I 
-
 
II.
 
 
c)
 
I 
-
 
II 
-
 
II 
-
 
I.
 
 
d)
 
II 
-
 
I 
-
 
I 
-
 
I.
 
1
. 
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&book
mark=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. 
 
2. According to some literature critics, the Works of John Keats show a deep care with 
contents and also form. This appears throgh the way the author refers to women, life, 
a conscious feeling that beauty reaches an end. This aspect leads to a great suffering 
impression in his writings. If you had to talk about these feelings and form of the 
English literature in class, you would certainly talk about this author and masterpiece 
or theme. Relate author and work: 
 
I- John Keats. 
II- Mary Shelley. 
 
( ) Horror, dramatic situations, freaking creatures. 
( ) Love and beauty, women, nature and life. 
( ) La Belle Dame Sans Merci 
( ) Beauty in arts, love of the past, nature and sensuality. 
 
Check the right sequence: 
 a) 
I - I - II - II. 
 b) 
II - I - I - II. 
 c) 
I - II - II - I. 
 d) 
II - I - I - I.