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A Interterritorialidade no Ensino da Arte, defendida por Ana Mae Barbosa (2008), está fundamentada na interculturalidade, interdisciplinaridade e transdisciplinaridade, e na integração das linguagens artísticas.
Marque nas afirmativas abaixo “V” para VERDADEIRO e “F” para FALSO, assinalando em seguida a alternativa que apresenta a ordem CORRETA, na sequência de cima para baixo:
( ) A polivalência na Educação Artística é um marco fundante do conceito de Interterritorialidade.
( ) O conceito de Interterritorialidade é coerente com a abordagem de manifestações contemporâneas que promovem o diálogo entre as linguagens.
( ) A Interterritorialidade torna obrigatório o ensino de todas as linguagens artísticas nas diferentes etapas da educação básica.
( ) A Interterritorialidade pressupõe a necessidade de estabelecer relações entre os saberes, desconsiderando a autonomia das linguagens e das áreas de conhecimento.
( ) A Interterritorialidade pressupõe a ação conjunta de profissionais com competências específicas em diálogo.
“O crescimento do capitalismo foi uma influência poderosa no desenvolvimento do museu como o lar adequado para as obras de arte, assim como na promoção da ideia de que elas são separadas da vida comum. Os novosricos, que são um importante subproduto do sistema capitalista, sentiram-se especialmente comprometidos a se cercar de obras de arte que, por serem raras, eram também dispendiosas. Em linhas gerais, o colecionador típico é o capitalista típico. Para comprovar sua boa posição no campo da cultura superior, ele acumula quadros, estátuas e joias artísticos do mesmo modo que suas ações e seus títulos atestam sua posição no mundo econômico”. (DEWEY, John. Arte como Experiência. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2010. p. 67)
À mera apreciação da arte como mercadoria ou símbolo de ascensão social, John Dewey propôs a arte como experiência. Considerando a proposição de Dewey em relação à experiência perceptiva de uma obra, assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
I. A fase estética ou vivencial da experiência é receptiva, ela envolve uma rendição. Porém, essa entrega adequada do eu só é possível através de uma atividade controlada que, apesar disso, pode ser intensa.
II. Para perceber, o espectador ou observador tem de criar sua experiência. E a criação deve incluir relações comparáveis às vivenciadas pelo produtor original, o artista, porém, elas não são idênticas em um sentido literal.
III. O artista escolheu, simplificou, esclareceu, abreviou e condensou a obra de acordo com seu interesse. Aquele que olha deve passar por essas operações tal e qual a experiência primal do artista.
IV. Somente as pessoas que tenham conhecimento sobre arte, ou que tenham passado por alguma vivência artística, além de ter uma sensibilidade estética, são capazes de ter uma experiência de percepção artística genuína, pois a percepção artística demanda conhecimento.
Assinale a alternativa em que todas (a)s afirmativa(s) está(ão) CORRETA(S):
Segundo Ana Mae Barbosa, “De 1937 a 1945 o estado político ditatorial implantado no Brasil, afastando das cúpulas diretivas educadores de ação renovadora, entravou o desenvolvimento da arte-educação e solidificou alguns procedimentos, como o desenho geométrico na escola secundária e na escola primária, o desenho pedagógico e a cópia de estampas usadas para as aulas de composição em língua portuguesa”. (BARBOSA, Ana Mae. Arte Educação no Brasil: do modernismo ao pós-modernismo. Revista Digital Art&. Número 0. Outubro de 2003. Disponível em . Acesso em: 04 out. 2016)
Ao usar o termo “educadores de ação renovadora”, Barbosa se refere à que vertente(s) da educação?
I. Escola Renovadora, que seguia os preceitos de Paulo Freire.
II. Movimento de Arte Moderna, capitaneado por Anita Malfatti e Mario de Andrade.
III. Movimento Escolanovista, inspirado no pensamento de John Dewey e Anísio Teixeira.
IV. Emocionalismo, advindo das vertentes expressionistas europeias.
V. Pedagogia Tecnicista.
Assinale a alternativa em que todas (a)s afirmativa(s) está(ão) CORRETA(S):
Jorge Coli, no livro O que é arte, falando sobre a obra “A fonte”, de Marcel Duchamp, diz: “o mictório que, pela sua função receptora de excremento, evoca o lado animal, orgânico e portanto menos ‘nobre’ do homem, está nos antípodas da concepção de arte como instrumento de elevação do espírito: é antiarte por excelência. Convertido em peça de museu, assume o papel de objeto de contemplação, passa a provocar ‘sentimentos’ no espectador [...]. Qualquer objeto aceito como arte, torna-se artístico”. (COLI, Jorge. O que é Arte?. São Paulo: Editora Brasiliense, 1995. p. 68)
Acerca dessa afirmação e em consonância com a intenção do artista ao enviar o objeto para o espaço de arte, assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
I. A atitude de Duchamp pretendia desqualificar os espaços de arte, pois se estes aceitassem um objeto tão desprezível como sendo uma obra, estariam eles mesmos admitindo sua impossibilidade de determinar o que fosse arte.
II. Duchamp pretendia promover uma crítica à atitude solene e "culta" que nossa civilização confere ao contato com o objeto artístico. Ele almejava denunciar o aspecto convencional da atribuição do estatuto de arte pelos instrumentos da cultura e criar uma antiarte.
III. O poder dos instrumentos culturais acabou por absorver os objetos de Duchamp, que deveriam ser apenas testemunhos de um gesto de questionamento, mas que, conservados em museu, adquirem efetivamente o estatuto de arte. A negação da arte, a crítica radical, tornam-se "meios" de produção artística.
IV. Ao aceitar o objeto de Duchamp, o espaço de arte obriga-se a aceitar o que quer que lhe seja enviado, sem critérios seletivos. Essa antiarte se desenrola numa desvalorização generalizada das pessoas pela arte contemporânea.
Durante o governo militar, a Reforma Educacional de 1971 acarretou para o ensino da Arte as seguintes medidas:
I. Adoção da polivalência.
II. Reconhecimento das linguagens específicas da Arte.
III. Criação dos cursos de Licenciatura Curta em Educação Artística, com 2 anos de duração.
IV. Criação dos cursos de Licenciatura Plena em Educação Artística, com duração de 4 anos.
Assinale a alternativa em que todas as afirmativas estão CORRETAS:
“A arte conceitual cresceu num espaço criado pela vanguarda, e o utilizou para estruturar uma crítica aos pressupostos do modernismo artístico, em particular ao seu foco exclusivamente dirigido ao estético e às reivindicações de autonomia da arte”. (WOOD, Paul. Arte Conceitual. São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2002. p. 28)
Segundo o autor, a arte conceitual implicava em levantar questões referentes ao propósito da arte frente à história da modernidade.
Podemos afirmar que estão CORRETAS as afirmações:
I. O objeto minimalista dispensa a habilidade do artista, inserindo a possibilidade de qualquer materialidade ou ação apresentar-se como arte.
II. A influência dadaísta não atinge a arte conceitual, pois suas provocações mantiveram-se centradas na subversão por meio de objetos que preservam certo caráter estético.
III. Enquanto a arte acadêmica relaciona-se prioritariamente com as narrativas literárias, a arte moderna procura as sensações. Mas a arte conceitual centrou-se nas ideias.
IV. São propostas relações conceituais entre os objetos físicos e suas formas de apresentação e representação.
Após o Estado Novo, observa-se um movimento nacional de valorização do argumento da arte como forma de liberação emocional, resultando na criação de ateliers ou escolinhas de arte cujo método consistia em:
“A galeria é construída de acordo com preceitos tão rigorosos quanto os da construção de uma igreja medieval. O mundo exterior não deve entrar, de modo que as janelas geralmente são lacradas. As paredes são pintadas de branco. O teto torna-se a fonte de luz. O chão de madeira é polido, para que você provoque estalidos austeros ao andar, ou acarpetado, para que você ande sem ruído". (O’DOHERTY, Brian. No interior do Cubo Branco - a ideologia do espaço na arte. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2002. p. 4)
Das afirmativas abaixo sobre a concepção moderna de espaço expositivo, qual está INCORRETA?
Leia atentamente os textos abaixo e, após relacioná-los, responda à questão.
TEXTO 1
Lojas Africanas, 2013.
Leandro Machado (Porto Alegre/RS, 1970)
Serigrafia sobre camiseta
100 x 45 cm
Coleção do artista
Disponível em: <http://cargocollective.com/leandromachado/LojasAfricanas-African-Stores>. Acesso em: 03 out. 2016.
TEXTO 2
Livro, 2011.
Leandro Machado (Porto Alegre/RS, 1970)
Marcador permanente sobre livro didático
28,5 x 22,6 x 1,4 cm
Coleção do artista
Disponível em <http://cargocollective.com/leandromachado/EscritosWritten>. Acesso em: 03 out. 2016
TEXTO 3
Mariano Carneiro da Cunha, no tópico “A emergência de artistas e temas negros a partir das décadas de 1930 e 40”, constante no texto "Arte afro-brasileira", publicado originalmente no livro História geral da arte no Brasil, organizado por Walter Zanini (1983), propõe outro campo de abrangência para o termo afro-brasileiro, que é independente da afrodescendência: "Dos artistas cobertos em geral por essa definição muitos são brancos, outros mestiços e relativamente poucos são negros. Poderíamos subdividi-los portanto em quatro grupos, ou seja: aqueles que só utilizam temas negros incidentalmente; os que o fazem de modo sistemático e consciente; os artistas que se servem não apenas de temas como também de soluções plásticas negras espontâneas, e, não raro, inconscientemente; finalmente os artistas rituais. Os três primeiros grupos definiriam o termo afrobrasileiro em seu sentido lato e o último grupo em sentido estrito". (CUNHA, 1983 citado por CONDURO, 2009, p. 36- 37)
"Salvo engano, é com essa subdivisão proposta por Mariano Carneiro da Cunha que se explicita e cristaliza historiograficamente a concepção inclusiva da arte afro-brasileira, que já era praticada anteriormente, ultrapassando a ideia de raça como elemento determinante dessa vertente artística”. CONDURU, Roberto. Negrume multicor: arte, África e Brasil para além de raça e etnia. Acervo. Revista do Arquivo Nacional, v. 22, nº 2, 2009, p. 36. Disponível em . Acesso: em 03 de out. 2016.
A partir das referências apresentadas acima, analise as afirmativas, identificando com "V" as VERDADEIRAS e com "F" as FALSAS, assinalando a seguir a alternativa CORRETA, na sequência de cima para baixo.
( ) Segundo o TEXTO 3, a obra de Leandro Machado pode ser classificada como afrobrasileira.
( ) Dos quatro grupos apresentados no TEXTO 3, pode-se incluir Leandro Machado no grupo dos que utilizam temas negros “de modo sistemático e consciente".
( ) Ainda que o artista fosse branco, os trabalhos de Machado (TEXTOS 1 e 2) poderiam ser classificados como arte afro-brasileira.
De acordo com Juliana Ferrazzo (2011), a prática do artesanato para os Kaingang é uma alternativa de renda e uma manifestação de sua história, cultura, identidade e marcas clânicas. Muitas vezes, em datas festivas, viajam para comercializar os objetos produzidos nas comunidades.
(FERRAZZO, Juliana C. Fabricação de artesanatos na aldeia kaingang capinzal/RS. Trabalho de conclusão de graduação. Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2011.)
Sobre a produção estética Kaingang, podemos afirmar que estão CORRETAS as afirmações:
I. As formas artesanais redondas e baixas relacionam-se aos Kairú, enquanto as compridas são produzidas pelos Kamé.
II. O ensino às crianças das atividades relacionadas ao artesanato transmite-se pela oralidade e pela observação e participação ativa em sua construção e comércio.
III. A confecção de cestos utiliza exclusivamente taquaras, que geralmente são tingidas.
IV. As comunidades mantêm a produção de técnicas tradicionais, extraindo todos os recursos de que necessitam de seus territórios.
As influências dos estilos modernos europeus foram absorvidas e reformuladas pelos artistas latinos com forte influência do cenário político e das culturas indígenas. A __________ teve grande impacto sobre os pintores __________, como __________. Já o uruguaio __________, apesar de adotar estilo internacionalista influenciado pelo __________, revela seu fascínio pelas culturas __________.
Assinale a alternativa que preenche CORRETAMENTE todas as lacunas, na ordem do texto acima:
O Renascimento propaga a ênfase no estudo do mundo tangível, do conhecimento obtido gradualmente a partir da observação e experimentação científica. A partir do século XVIII, artistas de diferentes nações embarcam em expedições à América Latina com o intuito de registrar a geografia dos territórios explorados, a fauna, a flora e a vida humana.
(ADES, Dawn. Arte na América Latina. São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 1997)
I. A função atribuída aos artistas-cronistas viajantes tinha o intuito de mapear os recursos dos territórios a fim de possibilitar seu comércio.
II. O registro dos hábitos humanos ficou conhecido como costumbrismo.
III. Alexander von Humboldt, Jean-Baptiste Debret e Johann Moritz Rugendas figuram entre os principais nomes de artistas viajantes que atuaram na América Latina.
IV. O rigor Neoclássico vigente nas Academias de Arte não interferiu na produção dos artistas cronistas viajantes.
Assinale quais dessas afirmativas estão CORRETAS:
Sobre a Proposta Triangular de Ana Mae Barbosa, analise as afirmativas, identificando com “V” as VERDADEIRAS e com “F” as FALSAS, assinalando a seguir a alternativa CORRETA, na sequência de cima para baixo:
( ) A Proposta Triangular foi sistematizada a partir das condições estéticas e culturais da pós-modernidade. A Pós-Modernidade em Arte/Educação caracterizou-se pela entrada da imagem, sua decodificação e interpretações na sala de aula junto com a já conquistada expressividade.
( ) John Dewey foi o principal inspirador para Ana Mae Barbosa criar a Proposta Triangular.
( ) A Proposta Triangular é baseada na leitura de imagens, contextualização e prática artística.
( ) A Proposta Triangular teve forte influência do pensamento de Paulo Freire.
( ) O foco da Proposta Triangular é o fazer artístico.
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
Consider the statements below:
I. The verbs 'claimed' (line 20), 'pointed out' (line 23), and 'affirmed' (line 24) are verbs of saying;
II. The sentence 'Alaska contained nothing' (line 20) can be rewritten as 'Alaska did not contain anything';
III. The sentence 'Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash' (lines 37) means that the Baron won that sum of money only after the negotiations were finished.
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
The word 'pay' may be both a noun, as in 'the pay' (line 19) and a verb, as in 'to pay' (line 35) without having to change its spelling. The same may occur to all the words bellow, EXCEPT for:
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
The clauses 'the castigations would have been comical' and 'had they not influenced American thinking...' present the same grammatical relation as in:
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
The sequence 'was not easily diverted' (line 28) presents the same passive voice structure in all of the following, EXCEPT for:
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
The feature voiceless for the 'th' sound in the word 'worthless' (line 38), considering their ideal phonological pronunciation, is the same as in the following pair of words:
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
The sentence 'But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target' (line 28) could be paraphrased only by the following sentence:
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
Considering the whole excerpt, it is possible to say that:
I. the author depicts the historical facts, but shows his opinion by using irony;
II. the author describes the process by which the USA bought the Alaska territory, which belonged to Russia.
III. the statements ‘One sharp satirist' (line 20) and 'One congressman' (line 41) express the author’s own opinions and the ideas of historical characters whose names were not worth mentioning respectively.
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