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1Q1073749 | Noções de Informática, Sistema Operacional, Técnico em Enfermagem, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Sobre a barra de tarefas do Sistema Operacional Windows 11, é correto afirmar que ela permite:
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2Q1073750 | Noções de Informática, Ferramentas de Reuniões e Comunicações On Line, Técnico em Enfermagem, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Sobre a plataforma de comunicação Microsoft Teams, é correto afirmar que o perfil Apresentador pode:
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  2. ✂️
  3. ✂️
  4. ✂️

3Q1073751 | Noções de Informática, Planilhas Eletrônicas, Técnico em Enfermagem, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Na planilha eletrônica do pacote LibreOffice, uma célula é definida pelas coordenadas de uma linha e de uma coluna. Sobre essas coordenadas, é correto afirmar que:
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  4. ✂️

4Q1076610 | Legislação de Trânsito, Habilitação Na Legislação de Trânsito, Categoria AB D Operador de Máquinas Pesadas, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Nos termos do Código de Trânsito Brasileiro, dirigir veículo com Carteira Nacional de Habilitação ou Permissão para Dirigir de categoria diferente da do veículo que esteja conduzindo constitui infração:
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  4. ✂️

5Q1076611 | Legislação de Trânsito, Normas Gerais de Circulação e Conduta, Categoria AB D Operador de Máquinas Pesadas, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Considerando o Código de Trânsito Brasileiro, todo condutor, ao perceber que outro que o segue tem o propósito de ultrapassá-lo, deverá:
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6Q1076612 | Legislação de Trânsito, Normas Gerais de Circulação e Conduta, Categoria AB D Operador de Máquinas Pesadas, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

No que diz respeito ao uso de luzes em veículo, conforme as disposições estabelecidas no Código de Trânsito Brasileiro, é correto afirmar que:
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  4. ✂️

7Q1076613 | Legislação de Trânsito, Normas Gerais de Circulação e Conduta, Categoria AB D Operador de Máquinas Pesadas, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Analise os itens a seguir:

I. A velocidade máxima permitida para a via não poderá ser indicada por meio de sinalização.
II. Nas vias urbanas, onde não existir sinalização regulamentadora, a velocidade máxima será de oitenta quilômetros por hora, nas vias de trânsito rápido.
III. A velocidade mínima não poderá ser inferior à metade da velocidade máxima estabelecida, respeitadas as condições operacionais de trânsito e da via.

Marque a única alternativa correta, de acordo com as regras estabelecidas no Código de Trânsito Brasileiro.
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8Q1076614 | Legislação de Trânsito, Sinalização de Trânsito, Categoria AB D Operador de Máquinas Pesadas, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Um condutor observa simultaneamente os seguintes elementos:

• Uma placa de regulamentação;
• Uma seta branca pintada no solo;
• Um semáforo;
• Um agente de trânsito dando ordens na via.

Considerando as disposições do Código de Trânsito Brasileiro sobre a ordem de prevalência dos sinais, qual ação o condutor deverá obedecer?
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9Q1073805 | Noções de Informática, Inteligência Artificial e Automação, Professor de Informática, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Um professor deseja criar conteúdos personalizados para seus alunos utilizando IA generativa. Nesse caso, qual a opção de IA generativa de código aberto poderia ser utilizada pelo professor?
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10Q1073806 | Noções de Informática, Teclas de Atalho, Professor de Informática, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Um professor está aprendendo a utilizar o programa Microsoft Teams na versão web e deseja abrir a janela de Ajuda de Atalho de Teclado. Para isso, o professor deve utilizar o atalho:
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11Q1024975 | Inglês, Verbos Verbs, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text I to answer the question.

TEXT I


Teachers in the Movement: Pedagogy, Activism, and Freedom


In this year's Presidential Address, historian Derrick P. Alridge __________ his current research project, Teachers in the Movement: Pedagogy, Activism, and Freedom. The project builds on recent literature about teachers as activists be tween 1950 and 1980 and explores how and what secondary and postsecondary teachers taught. Focusing on teachers in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, the project investigates teachers' roles as agents of social change through teaching the ideals of freedom during the most significant social movement in the United States in the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and archival research, the project plans to produce five hundred videotaped interviews that will generate extensive firsthand knowledge and fresh perspectives about teachers in the civil rights move ment. By examining teachers' pedagogical activism during this period of rapid social change, Alridge hopes to inspire and inform educators teaching in the midst of today's freedom and social justice movements.


(Disponível em: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1255911)

Select the option that accurately fills the gap on the provided text
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12Q1024976 | Inglês, Vocabulário Vocabulary, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text I to answer the question.

TEXT I


Teachers in the Movement: Pedagogy, Activism, and Freedom


In this year's Presidential Address, historian Derrick P. Alridge __________ his current research project, Teachers in the Movement: Pedagogy, Activism, and Freedom. The project builds on recent literature about teachers as activists be tween 1950 and 1980 and explores how and what secondary and postsecondary teachers taught. Focusing on teachers in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, the project investigates teachers' roles as agents of social change through teaching the ideals of freedom during the most significant social movement in the United States in the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and archival research, the project plans to produce five hundred videotaped interviews that will generate extensive firsthand knowledge and fresh perspectives about teachers in the civil rights move ment. By examining teachers' pedagogical activism during this period of rapid social change, Alridge hopes to inspire and inform educators teaching in the midst of today's freedom and social justice movements.


(Disponível em: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1255911)

To maintain the meaning of the text, the highlighted phrasal verb “Build on” can be replaced with
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13Q1024977 | Inglês, Voz Ativa e Passiva Passive And Active Voice, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text I to answer the question.

TEXT I


Teachers in the Movement: Pedagogy, Activism, and Freedom


In this year's Presidential Address, historian Derrick P. Alridge __________ his current research project, Teachers in the Movement: Pedagogy, Activism, and Freedom. The project builds on recent literature about teachers as activists be tween 1950 and 1980 and explores how and what secondary and postsecondary teachers taught. Focusing on teachers in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, the project investigates teachers' roles as agents of social change through teaching the ideals of freedom during the most significant social movement in the United States in the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and archival research, the project plans to produce five hundred videotaped interviews that will generate extensive firsthand knowledge and fresh perspectives about teachers in the civil rights move ment. By examining teachers' pedagogical activism during this period of rapid social change, Alridge hopes to inspire and inform educators teaching in the midst of today's freedom and social justice movements.


(Disponível em: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1255911)

Choose the option that correctly presents a sentence in the active voice.
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14Q1024978 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text I to answer the question.

TEXT I


Teachers in the Movement: Pedagogy, Activism, and Freedom


In this year's Presidential Address, historian Derrick P. Alridge __________ his current research project, Teachers in the Movement: Pedagogy, Activism, and Freedom. The project builds on recent literature about teachers as activists be tween 1950 and 1980 and explores how and what secondary and postsecondary teachers taught. Focusing on teachers in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, the project investigates teachers' roles as agents of social change through teaching the ideals of freedom during the most significant social movement in the United States in the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and archival research, the project plans to produce five hundred videotaped interviews that will generate extensive firsthand knowledge and fresh perspectives about teachers in the civil rights move ment. By examining teachers' pedagogical activism during this period of rapid social change, Alridge hopes to inspire and inform educators teaching in the midst of today's freedom and social justice movements.


(Disponível em: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1255911)

Based on the excerpt presented about Derrick P. Alridge's research project, it is accurate to state that:
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15Q1024979 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text II to answer question:

TEXT II


"Schön’s work has restructured how professionals conceive their practice and how they go about learning from ex perience. At the very heart of Schön’s theory lies reflection in action; that is, professionals are supposed to learn, not just to reflect after the fact but amidst action. Indeed, this approach to learning and professional development has been a central cornerstone of the training and education of practitioners across many fields. Schön defines reflection as the ability of pro fessionals to examine their actions and decisions to understand and practice with effectiveness better. The theorist is based on two major types of reflection: reflection in action and reflection on action”.


(Adapted from : https://acadfundu.com/what-is-donald-schons-theory-of-reflective-practice/)

As regards Text II, analyse the assertions below:

I. Schön’s approach has been central exclusively to education field.

II. Schön defines reflection as the ability of professionals to critically examine their actions and decisions to improve their effectiveness in practice.

III. Schön’s work is based on how professionals learn from theory.

Choose the correct answer.

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16Q1024980 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text III to answer the following question.


TEXT III


Realities of Race, by Mike Peed


What’s the difference between an African-American and an American-African? From such a distinction springs a deep-seated discussion of race in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, “Americanah.” Adichie, born in Nigeria but now living both in her homeland and in the United States, is an extraordinarily self-aware thinker and writer, possessing the abil ity to lambaste society without sneering or patronizing or polemicizing. For her, it seems no great feat to balance high literary intentions with broad social critique. “Americanah” examines blackness in America, Nigeria and Britain, but it’s also a steady-handed dissection of the universal human experience — a platitude made fresh by the accuracy of Adichie’s obser vations. […]


“Americanah” tells the story of a smart, strong-willed Nigerian woman named Ifemelu who, after she leaves Africa for America, endures several harrowing years of near destitution before graduating from college, starting a blog entitled “Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black” and winning a fellowship at Princeton (as Adichie once did; she has acknowledged that many of Ifemelu’s experiences are her own). Ever hovering in Ifemelu’s thoughts is her high school boyfriend, Obinze, an equally intelligent if gentler, more self-effacing Nigerian, who outstays his visa and takes illegal jobs in London. (When Obinze trips and falls to the ground, a co-worker shouts, “His knee is bad because he’s a knee-grow!”)


Ifemelu and Obinze represent a new kind of immigrant, “raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction.” They aren’t fleeing war or starvation but “the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.” Where Obinze fails — soon enough, he is deported — Ifemelu thrives, in part because she seeks authenticity. […]


Early on, a horrific event leaves Ifemelu reeling, and years later, when she returns to Nigeria, she’s still haunted by it. Meantime, back in Lagos, Obinze has found wealth as a property developer. Though the book threatens to morph into a simple story of their reunion, it stretches into a scalding assessment of Nigeria, a country too proud to have patience for “Americanahs” — big shots who return from abroad to belittle their countrymen — and yet one that, sometimes unwitting ly, endorses foreign values. (Of the winter scenery in a school’s Christmas pageant, a parent asks, “Are they teaching chil dren that a Christmas is not a real Christmas unless snow falls like it does abroad?”)


“Americanah” is witheringly trenchant and hugely empathetic, both worldly and geographically precise, a novel that holds the discomfiting realities of our times fearlessly before us. It never feels false.


(Adapted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/books/review/americanah-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.html)

Text III is a

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17Q1024981 | Inglês, Adjetivos Adjectives, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text III to answer the following question.


TEXT III


Realities of Race, by Mike Peed


What’s the difference between an African-American and an American-African? From such a distinction springs a deep-seated discussion of race in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, “Americanah.” Adichie, born in Nigeria but now living both in her homeland and in the United States, is an extraordinarily self-aware thinker and writer, possessing the abil ity to lambaste society without sneering or patronizing or polemicizing. For her, it seems no great feat to balance high literary intentions with broad social critique. “Americanah” examines blackness in America, Nigeria and Britain, but it’s also a steady-handed dissection of the universal human experience — a platitude made fresh by the accuracy of Adichie’s obser vations. […]


“Americanah” tells the story of a smart, strong-willed Nigerian woman named Ifemelu who, after she leaves Africa for America, endures several harrowing years of near destitution before graduating from college, starting a blog entitled “Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black” and winning a fellowship at Princeton (as Adichie once did; she has acknowledged that many of Ifemelu’s experiences are her own). Ever hovering in Ifemelu’s thoughts is her high school boyfriend, Obinze, an equally intelligent if gentler, more self-effacing Nigerian, who outstays his visa and takes illegal jobs in London. (When Obinze trips and falls to the ground, a co-worker shouts, “His knee is bad because he’s a knee-grow!”)


Ifemelu and Obinze represent a new kind of immigrant, “raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction.” They aren’t fleeing war or starvation but “the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.” Where Obinze fails — soon enough, he is deported — Ifemelu thrives, in part because she seeks authenticity. […]


Early on, a horrific event leaves Ifemelu reeling, and years later, when she returns to Nigeria, she’s still haunted by it. Meantime, back in Lagos, Obinze has found wealth as a property developer. Though the book threatens to morph into a simple story of their reunion, it stretches into a scalding assessment of Nigeria, a country too proud to have patience for “Americanahs” — big shots who return from abroad to belittle their countrymen — and yet one that, sometimes unwitting ly, endorses foreign values. (Of the winter scenery in a school’s Christmas pageant, a parent asks, “Are they teaching chil dren that a Christmas is not a real Christmas unless snow falls like it does abroad?”)


“Americanah” is witheringly trenchant and hugely empathetic, both worldly and geographically precise, a novel that holds the discomfiting realities of our times fearlessly before us. It never feels false.


(Adapted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/books/review/americanah-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.html)

Choose the alternative that adjective(s) and sentence best define(s) how characters are represented in Americanah’s re view:
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18Q1024982 | Inglês, Vocabulário Vocabulary, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text III to answer the following question.


TEXT III


Realities of Race, by Mike Peed


What’s the difference between an African-American and an American-African? From such a distinction springs a deep-seated discussion of race in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, “Americanah.” Adichie, born in Nigeria but now living both in her homeland and in the United States, is an extraordinarily self-aware thinker and writer, possessing the abil ity to lambaste society without sneering or patronizing or polemicizing. For her, it seems no great feat to balance high literary intentions with broad social critique. “Americanah” examines blackness in America, Nigeria and Britain, but it’s also a steady-handed dissection of the universal human experience — a platitude made fresh by the accuracy of Adichie’s obser vations. […]


“Americanah” tells the story of a smart, strong-willed Nigerian woman named Ifemelu who, after she leaves Africa for America, endures several harrowing years of near destitution before graduating from college, starting a blog entitled “Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black” and winning a fellowship at Princeton (as Adichie once did; she has acknowledged that many of Ifemelu’s experiences are her own). Ever hovering in Ifemelu’s thoughts is her high school boyfriend, Obinze, an equally intelligent if gentler, more self-effacing Nigerian, who outstays his visa and takes illegal jobs in London. (When Obinze trips and falls to the ground, a co-worker shouts, “His knee is bad because he’s a knee-grow!”)


Ifemelu and Obinze represent a new kind of immigrant, “raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction.” They aren’t fleeing war or starvation but “the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.” Where Obinze fails — soon enough, he is deported — Ifemelu thrives, in part because she seeks authenticity. […]


Early on, a horrific event leaves Ifemelu reeling, and years later, when she returns to Nigeria, she’s still haunted by it. Meantime, back in Lagos, Obinze has found wealth as a property developer. Though the book threatens to morph into a simple story of their reunion, it stretches into a scalding assessment of Nigeria, a country too proud to have patience for “Americanahs” — big shots who return from abroad to belittle their countrymen — and yet one that, sometimes unwitting ly, endorses foreign values. (Of the winter scenery in a school’s Christmas pageant, a parent asks, “Are they teaching chil dren that a Christmas is not a real Christmas unless snow falls like it does abroad?”)


“Americanah” is witheringly trenchant and hugely empathetic, both worldly and geographically precise, a novel that holds the discomfiting realities of our times fearlessly before us. It never feels false.


(Adapted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/books/review/americanah-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.html)

Based on the excerpt from the 3rd paragraph: “They aren’t fleeing war or starvation but ‘the oppressive lethargy of choice lessness’", it is correct to say that a synonym for “lethargy” is:
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19Q1064663 | Português, Interpretação de Textos, Agente Comunitário de Saúde, Prefeitura de Anajás PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.
A partir do texto abaixo, leia-o com atenção para responder à questão.


O fim do mundo


A primeira vez que ouvi falar no fim do mundo, o mundo para mim não tinha nenhum sentido, ainda; de modo que não me interessava nem o seu começo nem o seu fim. Lembro-me, porém, vagamente, de umas mulheres nervosas que choravam, meio desgrenhadas, e aludiam a um cometa que andava pelo céu, responsável pelo acontecimento que elas tanto temiam.

Nada disso se entendia comigo: o mundo era delas, o cometa era para elas: nós, crianças, existíamos apenas para brincar com as flores da goiabeira e as cores do tapete.

Mas, uma noite, levantaram-me da cama, enrolada num lençol, e, estremunhada, levaram-me à janela para me apresentarem à força ao temível cometa. Aquilo que até então não me interessava nada, que nem vencia a preguiça dos meus olhos pareceu-me, de repente, maravilhoso. Era um pavão branco, pousado no ar, por cima dos telhados? Era uma noiva, que caminhava pela noite, sozinha, ao encontro da sua festa? Gostei muito do cometa. Devia sempre haver um cometa no céu, como há lua, sol, estrelas. Por que as pessoas andavam tão apavoradas? A mim não me causava medo nenhum.

Ora, o cometa desapareceu, aqueles que choravam enxugaram os olhos, o mundo não se acabou, talvez eu tenha ficado um pouco triste – mas que importância tem a tristeza das crianças?

Passou-se muito tempo. Aprendi muitas coisas, entre as quais o suposto sentido do mundo. Não duvido de que o mundo tenha sentido. Deve ter mesmo muitos, inúmeros, pois em redor de mim as pessoas mais ilustres e sabedoras fazem cada coisa que bem se vê haver um sentido do mundo peculiar a cada um.

Dizem que o mundo termina em fevereiro próximo. Ninguém fala em cometa, e é pena, porque eu gostaria de tornar a ver um cometa, para verificar se a lembrança que conservo dessa imagem do céu é verdadeira ou inventada pelo sono dos meus olhos naquela noite já muito antiga.

O mundo vai acabar, e certamente saberemos qual era o seu verdadeiro sentido. Se valeu a pena que uns trabalhassem tanto e outros tão pouco. Por que fomos tão sinceros ou tão hipócritas, tão falsos e tão leais. Por que pensamos tanto em nós mesmos ou só nos outros. Por que fizemos voto de pobreza ou assaltamos os cofres públicos — além dos particulares. Por que mentimos tanto, com palavras tão judiciosas. Tudo isso saberemos e muito mais do que cabe enumerar numa crônica.

Se o fim do mundo for mesmo em fevereiro, convém pensarmos desde já se utilizamos este dom de viver da maneira mais digna.

Em muitos pontos da terra há pessoas, neste momento, pedindo a Deus — dono de todos os mundos — que trate com benignidade as criaturas que se preparam para encerrar a sua carreira mortal. Há mesmo alguns místicos — segundo leio — que, na Índia, lançam flores ao fogo, num rito de adoração.

Enquanto isso, os planetas assumem os lugares que lhes competem, na ordem do universo, neste universo de enigmas a que estamos ligados e no qual por vezes nos arrogamos posições que não temos – insignificantes que somos, na tremenda grandiosidade total.

Ainda há uns dias a reflexão e o arrependimento: por que não os utilizaremos? Se o fim do mundo não for em fevereiro, todos teremos fim, em qualquer mês.


(MEIRELES, Cecília. Quatro vozes. 2. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1998).
Sobre o assunto principal do texto, é correto afirmar que:
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20Q1024983 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Piçarra PA, Instituto Ágata, 2025

Texto associado.

Read text III to answer the following question.


TEXT III


Realities of Race, by Mike Peed


What’s the difference between an African-American and an American-African? From such a distinction springs a deep-seated discussion of race in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, “Americanah.” Adichie, born in Nigeria but now living both in her homeland and in the United States, is an extraordinarily self-aware thinker and writer, possessing the abil ity to lambaste society without sneering or patronizing or polemicizing. For her, it seems no great feat to balance high literary intentions with broad social critique. “Americanah” examines blackness in America, Nigeria and Britain, but it’s also a steady-handed dissection of the universal human experience — a platitude made fresh by the accuracy of Adichie’s obser vations. […]


“Americanah” tells the story of a smart, strong-willed Nigerian woman named Ifemelu who, after she leaves Africa for America, endures several harrowing years of near destitution before graduating from college, starting a blog entitled “Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black” and winning a fellowship at Princeton (as Adichie once did; she has acknowledged that many of Ifemelu’s experiences are her own). Ever hovering in Ifemelu’s thoughts is her high school boyfriend, Obinze, an equally intelligent if gentler, more self-effacing Nigerian, who outstays his visa and takes illegal jobs in London. (When Obinze trips and falls to the ground, a co-worker shouts, “His knee is bad because he’s a knee-grow!”)


Ifemelu and Obinze represent a new kind of immigrant, “raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction.” They aren’t fleeing war or starvation but “the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.” Where Obinze fails — soon enough, he is deported — Ifemelu thrives, in part because she seeks authenticity. […]


Early on, a horrific event leaves Ifemelu reeling, and years later, when she returns to Nigeria, she’s still haunted by it. Meantime, back in Lagos, Obinze has found wealth as a property developer. Though the book threatens to morph into a simple story of their reunion, it stretches into a scalding assessment of Nigeria, a country too proud to have patience for “Americanahs” — big shots who return from abroad to belittle their countrymen — and yet one that, sometimes unwitting ly, endorses foreign values. (Of the winter scenery in a school’s Christmas pageant, a parent asks, “Are they teaching chil dren that a Christmas is not a real Christmas unless snow falls like it does abroad?”)


“Americanah” is witheringly trenchant and hugely empathetic, both worldly and geographically precise, a novel that holds the discomfiting realities of our times fearlessly before us. It never feels false.


(Adapted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/books/review/americanah-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.html)

In light of Mike’s review of the book Americanah, which statement best describes the plot?
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