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Brazilian Literature and Portuguese Language

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  1. Who wrote the novel Dom Casmurro (1899)?
  2. Which work is usually taken as the start of Realism in Brazilian literature (1881)?
  3. Who is the narrator of Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956), by Guimarães Rosa?
  4. Which novel by Clarice Lispector (1977) has Macabéa as its protagonist?
  5. Which novel by Graciliano Ramos (1938) describes a family of migrants fleeing drought in the Northeast?
  6. Which novel by José de Alencar (1865) is an indigenist Romantic work?
  7. Where and when was the Semana de Arte Moderna held?
  8. Which Modernist writer published the Manifesto Antropófago in 1928?
  9. Which poet wrote A Rosa do Povo (1945)?
  10. Which poet is known as the 'poet of the slaves' for O Navio Negreiro?
  11. Gonçalves Dias wrote 'Minha terra tem palmeiras, onde canta o Sabia'. To which phase does this poem belong?
  12. Which novel by Aluísio Azevedo (1890) is a classic of Brazilian Naturalism?
  13. In which sentence is the grave accent (crase) used correctly?
  14. What is the correct plural of the word 'cidadão'?
  15. Which of these words is a proparoxytone (stress on the third-last syllable)?
  16. In 'Eles vêm de longe', what does the circumflex accent on 'vêm' show?
  17. Which figure of speech appears in the sentence 'Aquele homem e uma rocha'?
  18. Who was the first president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, founded in 1897?
  19. Which novel by Jorge Amado (1937) follows a gang of abandoned children in Salvador?
  20. Which novel by Lima Barreto (1915) satirises the nationalism of a government clerk?
  21. Where is Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956) set?

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