Based on Hesse’s text, analyse the assertions below.
I. Multiculturalism is as diverse as the spectrum of
questions that it encompasses; therefore it must be
called multiculturalisms.
II. Some participants of the “culture wars” unyieldingly
defended American prevalent culture.
III. Critics of multiculturalism have seen it as a postmodern
tendency that promotes division instead of
union.
The correct assertion(s) is/are
Read the sentence below.
Japanese word order is relatively free; therefore, two noun
phrases may be scrambled without affecting the meaning of the
sentence.
Choose the alternative that presents the word that
replaces correctly the highlighted conjunction.
Choose the alternative that presents an example of passive voice.
Choose the alternative that lists four words whose vowel pronunciation is the same as for “ship”.
Read the paragraph below and choose the alternative that
fills in correctly the blank.
“_____________________________ is a controversial
American Bildungsroman or a coming-of-age novel published in
1951 . Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book
and the context in which it is presented. In 1960 a teacher was
fired for assigning the novel in class and between 1961 and
1982 it was the most censored book in high schools and
libraries. In 1981 it was both the most censored book and the
second most taught book in American public schools.”
BALDASSARO, W. In: Banned Books Awareness, 2011
Choose the alternative that names the literary genre that rose from and to the bourgeoisie of the eighteenth-century England and that has Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, as one of its precursors.
Read the last paragraph of Hesse´s text.
“At its best, the politics of multiculturalism in the United
States has raised serious doubts and consternation
__________________________________________________.”
Choose the alternative that completes this last paragraph
correctly.
Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that
fills in correctly and respectively the blanks.
Under less-than-optimal conditions, evaluating instructional
materials can certainly amount to a wholly subjective,
__________ arbitrary exercise; ___________, the use of simple
__________ systematic tools can streamline the assessment of
competences.
Read the sentence below.
English-educated Native Americans took to Shakespeare,
and translations in Indian languages began appearing from 1852
onwards.
Choose the alternative that presents the word that
replaces correctly the highlighted phrasal verb.
As concerns intonation, speakers of English repeatedly face three types of decision as they speak: how to break the material up into chunks, what it is to be accented, and what nuances are to be used. What it is to be accented in speech is called
Regarding Bandeira’s translation of Sonnet 43, analyse the
assertions below.
I. Bandeira uses a semantic strategy by changing the
original abstraction “candle-light” into “night”.
II. By reusing the adjective “quiet”, translated as
“sossegada”, to modify “noite”, formerly “candlelight”,
Bandeira is applying a syntactic strategy.
III. Bandeira changes the form of address, from informal
to formal, what constitutes a pragmatic strategy.
The correct assertion(s) is(are)
The English writer and social critic Charles Dickens (1812-
1870) is generally regarded as the best novelist of his time
– some critics consider him the greatest novelist of all time.
Therefore, choose the alternative that lists two of his
works.
Read the paragraph below to choose the alternative that
best summarizes it.
“Understanding these dominant traditions within the logic
of the multicultural suggests the need for coalitions and coproduction
in knowledge formation which takes seriously the
“local memories” and “subjugated knowledge” (according to
Foucault) whose exclusion and repression shore up the
dominant tradition as an unquestionably valorized (western)
universal foundation.”
Choose the alternative that best transforms into reported
speech what is said in the cartoon below.
