According to the text, the Swedish Academy is an institution that
- A has never changed over the years.
- B changes its criteria of choice every year.
- C is in a continuous process of renewal.
- D may come to change in a near future.
Prova da Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE) - Vestibular - UECE-CEV (2010) - Questões Comentadas
As to the policy adopted by the Swedish Academy during the First World War, the text states that it
- A excluded the countries involved in the conflict.
- B gave a chance to authors from the belligerent nations.
- C refused to accept nominations of Scandinavians.
- D maintained its neutrality position as it had done before.
As to the French poet Paul Valéry, it is stated in the text that he was not awarded the Nobel Prize because of
- A an old quarrel between the French and the Swedish.
- B the fact that he was Paul Claudel’s contemporary.
- C the policy of that period which focused on popular taste.
- D his disapproving position towards the Academy.
The choice of Gabriel García Márquez for the Nobel in 1982 is mentioned in the text as an example of a criterion which focused on
- A unknown magic realism novelists.
- B an already widely acclaimed “pioneer” writer.
- C authors from non-European countries.
- D a new generation of modern poets.
As to criticism toward the Academy, the author of the text says that they tend not to take into account
- A some special moments in the history of mankind and also the Academy’s ambition to include minor talents.
- B all the changes it has gone through and the difficulty in choosing from too many names sometimes.
- C the hardships of war periods and the attempt to always reward all deserving authors from different parts of the world.
- D the difficulty in following exactly the same criteria over a period of more than a hundred years and the disillusion with the lack of talents recently.