Questõesde UEM 2013

The word “myriad” (line 10) means a large number of something.

The adjectives “middle-aged” (line 7), “delightful” (line 9), “self-tormenting” (line 11) and “wry” (line 15) are describing only the character Bento Santiago.

“this novel” (lines 5-6) refers to the “Library of Latin America”.

“1900” (line 5) is the year when Dom Casmurro was launched in English by Oxford.

Choose the correct alternative, according to text.

The verbs “begins” (line 3), “is” (line 6) and “fails” (line 10) are all in the simple present tense.

all the seasons of the year are mentioned in text.

According to text, it is correct to affirm that

the narrator of the reviewed book is Bento Santiago.

the adjectives “careless” (line 1), “poor” (line 4) and “hungry” (line 8) have negative meanings.

the possessive pronoun “her” (line 14) and the relative pronoun “who” (line 18) refer to the cricket and to the ant, respectively.

the opposite of the words “careless” (line 1), “hungry” (line 8) and “refund” (line 15) are “careful”, “starving” and “reimburse”, respectively.

the word “interests” (line 16) could be replaced by the word “investments” without changing the meaning.

According to text, it is correct to affirm that

the ant’s answer was not a life lesson to the cricket.