The Enem Human Sciences and Technologies exam contains 45 multiple-choice objective questions worth 100 points. These questions are distributed by the following subjects:
- Story
- Geography
- Sociology
- Philosophy
The themes are the most varied and there is usually emphasis on those who suggest the celebration of a round date in the year of the race.
Generally, Enem questions something by making a relationship between these themes at different historical moments.
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Among the most frequent themes in the previous tests, we can highlight:
Story
Slavery
- Slavery in Brazil
- Indigenous Slavery in Colonial Brazil
- Slave trade
- Slave ships
- Abolitionism
- Abolition of slavery in Brazil
- Free Womb Law
- Sexagenarian Law
- Golden Law
Era Vargas
- Era Vargas
- Revolution of 1930
- Revolution of 1932
- Provisional government
- National Liberating Alliance
- Communist Intentona
- Constitutional government
- new state
- Cohen Traffic
Military dictatorship
- Military dictatorship in Brazil
- 1964 military coup
- 1967 Constitution
- Institutional Act nº 5 – AI-5
- Economic miracle
- Amnesty Law
Transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age
- Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
- Middle Ages
- Crisis of Feudalism
- State Society
- Commercial capitalism
- Features of the Renaissance
- Urban renaissance
- Scientific renaissance
- Commercial renaissance
- Anthropocentrism
Arrival of the Portuguese royal family
- Continental blockade
- The coming of the royal family to Brazil
- Johannine period
- Causes of Brazil’s independence
- Constitution of 1824
- Immigration in Brazil
History issues that fell in Enem
1 . (Enem / 2017) During the Estado Novo, those in charge of propaganda sought to improve themselves in the art of excitement and involvement of the “crowds” through political messages. In this type of speech, the meaning of the words matters little, as, as Goebbels stated, “we do not speak to say something, but to obtain a certain effect”.
Control over the media was a hallmark of the Estado Novo, being fundamental to political propaganda, as it aimed
A) gain popular support in legitimizing the new government.
B) increase the involvement of the crowds in political decisions.
C) increase the supply of public information to civil society.
D) extend the democratic participation of the media in Brazil.
E) broaden the population’s understanding of the new government’s intentions.
Answer:
Correct alternative: A) to win popular support in legitimizing the new government.
A) CORRECT. Political propaganda was always proud and paternalistic, being used to co-opt the people for the nationalist project of the government.
B) WRONG. Political communication strategies did not include popular participation as a thinking element.
C) WRONG. The government’s communication did not seek to clarify the population about its political decisions, only to make the people participate in the achievements achieved.
D) WRONG. Under the Vargas government there was censorship in the media.
E) WRONG. Getúlio Vargas had no intention of making the people a critical object of his decisions, only that they were there to applaud him.2 . (Enem / 2016) When the Court arrived in Rio de Janeiro, the Colony had just undergone a population explosion. In just over a hundred years, the number of inhabitants had increased tenfold.
The demographic change highlighted in the period was due to the activity
A) coffee tree, with the attraction of European immigration.
B) industrial, with the intensification of rural exodus.
C) mining, with the expansion of African traffic.
D) sugar cane, with the increase of the indigenous boarding.
E) manufacturing, with the incorporation of wage labor.View Answer
Correct alternative: C) mining, with the expansion of African traffic.
A) WRONG. Coffee cultivation was not yet extended in Brazil.
B) WRONG. There was no industrialization in Brazil in the early 18th century.
C) CORRECT. Mining became the main economic activity in Cologne, which increased the import of enslaved blacks.
D) WRONG. Sugarcane production was already in decline and indigenous slavery was definitely banned in the 18th century.
E) WRONG. In the colony, the manufactured work was punctual and the predominant one was the slave labor.
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Geography
Geology
- Geography of Brazil
- Geological structure of Brazil
- Brazilian relief
- Relief agents
- Geographical depressions
- Rivers of Brazil
- Types of rocks
- Crystalline shields
- Brazilian regions
Climate
- Difference between weather and climate
- Weather types
- Factors that influence the climate
- Climates of Brazil
- North region climate
- Northeast climate
- Climate of the Midwest region
- Southeast region climate
- Southern region climate
Urban Geography
- Urban Geography
- Brazilian Urbanization
- Brazilian urban network
- Urban hierarchy
- Natural and humanized landscape
- Conurbation
- What are metropolitan regions
economy
- Economy of Brazil
- Market economy
- Economic cycles in Brazil
- Planned economy
- Green economy
- WTO – World Trade Organization
- Economic blocks
- Economy sectors
- Industrialization in Brazil
- Agricultural systems
- Agriculture in Brazil
Demography
- Demographic density
- Demographic theories
- Brazilian population
- Birth rate and mortality
- Brazilian age pyramid
- Life expectancy
- Economically Active Population (PEA)
Geopolitics
- Conflict between the United States and North Korea
- Social problems in Brazil
- Crisis in Venezuela
- Independence of Catalonia
- New world order
- Globalization
- DIT: International Division of Labor
- War in Syria
- Israel and Palestine conflict
- Conflict in Kashmir
- Islamic state
- Al-qaeda
- Decriminalization of drugs
Geography issues that fell in Enem
3 . (Enem / 2017) The 8.8 Richter scale earthquake that hit Chile’s west coast in February caused significant changes in the region’s map. According to a preliminary analysis, the entire city of Concepción has moved at least three meters to the west. Buenos Aires moved about 2.5 centimeters to the west, while Santiago, closer to the venue, moved almost 30 centimeters to the west-southwest. The cities of Valparaíso, Chile, and Mendoza, Argentina, also had their positions significantly changed (13.4 centimeters and 8.8 centimeters, respectively).
In the text, a type of geological event frequent in certain parts of the Earth’s surface stands out. These events are focused on
A) volcanic areas, where the magmatic material rises, forming mountain ranges.
B) coastal strips, where the ocean floor receives sediment, causing tsunamis .
C) narrow bands of seismic intensity, in contact with tectonic plates, close to modern folds.
D) crystalline shields, where the rocks are subjected to weathering processes, with sudden changes in temperature.
E) areas of ancient sedimentary basins, located in the center of the tectonic plates, in regions known as hot spots.
Answer:
Correct alternative C) narrow bands of seismic intensity, in contact with tectonic plates, close to modern folds.
A) WRONG. The formation of mountain ranges is associated with the convergence of tectonic plates. The meeting of these plates produces a lifting effect from the ground.
B) WRONG. Tsunamis are giant waves that hit coastal regions and have as their cause the activity of tectonic plates within the sea.
C) CORRECT. These bands between tectonic plates have an intense seismic activity. Modern folds and the formation of mountain ranges are effects of the encounter (convergence) of these tectonic plates, as well as earthquakes.
The Andes Cordillera, which stretches across the western coast of South America, is the result of the movement of the Nazca Plate towards the South American Plate.
D) WRONG. Crystalline shields are areas of low seismic activity and do not have high altitudes. These shields correspond to the oldest layer of the Earth’s surface, the opposite of modern folds that represent the most recent layers.
E) WRONG. Sedimentary basins represent depressions caused by tectonic movement. However, they differ from the relationship with the events that occurred in the text.
4 . (Enem / 2017) The diversity of activities related to the tertiary sector reinforces the more general tendency of deindustrialization of many of the developed countries without them, however, losing the command of the economy. This change implies a new international division of labor, which is no longer supported by the clear sectoral segmentation of economic activities.
In this context, the described phenomenon has as one of its results the
A) saturation of the secondary sector.
B) expansion of labor rights.
C) bipolarization of geopolitical power.
D) consolidation of the technological domain.
E) primarization of global exports.
Answer:
Correct alternative D) consolidation of the technological domain.
A) WRONG. The secondary sector is no longer dominant in the current global scenario.
B) WRONG. With the introduction of neoliberalism, labor rights have decreased worldwide.
C) WRONG. Geopolitical power is currently divided into several poles.
D) CORRECT. With the accumulation of technology and knowledge, industrialized countries keep the lead through their brands and royalties.
E) WRONG. As the statement says, the economy has spread throughout the global territory, and there is no exclusivity for exports.
Sociology
Key concepts
- What is Sociology?
- Positivism
- Marxism
- Scientific socialism
- Class struggle
- Karl Marx‘s added value
- Materialism
- Citizenship
- Democracy
- Freedom of expression
- Religious intolerance
- Xenophobia
- Homophobia
- Criminal majority
- Nepotism
- Three Powers
Society
- Social organization
- Social institutions
- Social division of labor
- Social relationships
- Social role
- Stratified society
- Social isolation
- Social inequality
- Social exclusion
- Social change
- Cultural diversity
Main thinkers
- Auguste Comte
- Durkheim
- Max Weber
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Engels
- Florestan Fernandes
- Darcy Ribeiro
- Gilberto Freyre
Sociology issues that fell in Enem
5 . (Enem / 2017) Morality, Bentham urged, is not a matter of pleasing God, much less of fidelity to abstract rules. Morality is the attempt to create the greatest amount of happiness possible in this world. When deciding what to do, we should therefore ask which course of conduct would promote the greatest amount of happiness for all those who will be affected.
The action parameters indicated in the text are in accordance with a
A) scientific basis for positivist bias.
B) normative orientation social convention.
C) religious behavioral transgression.
D) pragmatic rationality.
E) inclination of a passionate nature.
Answer:
Correct alternative: D) pragmatic rationality.
A) WRONG. The positivist view presupposes the possibility of a scientific method for the validity of a process. The text takes happiness as a fundamental value.
Happiness does not tend to be a quantifiable value through a method, but from the point of view of opposition to suffering.
For this reason, we cannot associate a positivist view with the idea of “a greater amount of happiness”.
B) WRONG. The statement contained in the text is not a social convention, but a norm that must start from the individual as a social being.
C) WRONG. As it is a period with a strong Enlightenment influence, there is a split with theologically grounded morality. The proposal is supported without any relation to religion.
D) CORRECT. Enlightenment ideals bring rationality and reason as a revolutionary or negating force to the medieval perspective of submitting reason to faith.
The English thinker Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), as a defender of utilitarianism, proposes that rationality is anchored in its relationship with practice and utility, reinforcing the pragmatic character of reason.
E) WRONG. Despite the happiness it refers to emotions and can be understood in its passionate aspect. The perspective assumed in the text is uniquely rational. It is not a conception based on inclinations or based on subjectivity, but as a rational universal.
6 . (Enem / 2017) Art. 231. Indians are recognized for their social organization, customs, languages, beliefs and traditions, and the original rights over the lands they traditionally occupy, the Union is responsible for demarcating, protecting and ensuring respect for all its assets.
The persistence of the claims related to the application of this normative precept has in view the fundamental historical link between
A) ethnicity and racial miscegenation.
B) society and legal equality.
C) space and cultural survival.
D) progress and environmental education.
E) well-being and economic modernization.
Answer
Correct alternative: C) space and cultural survival.
A) WRONG. The excerpt from the Federal Constitution does not refer to miscegenation as a factor of protection or vulnerability to indigenous ethnicities.
B) WRONG. It is necessary to realize that a vision of society and legal equality within a homogenizing perspective may not take plurality into account and act as an exclusion factor for certain social groups, such as the Indians.
C) CORRECT. In the section of the Constitution, the right to territory (space) is presented in its link (as necessary) for the cultural survival of indigenous peoples. The loss of the right to the territory is understood as a risk to the “social organization, customs, languages, beliefs and traditions” specific to the different groups.
D) WRONG. The idea of progress and environmental education may or may not be related to respect for cultural diversity. In the text, the regulation of this link is not at issue.
E) WRONG. Likewise, what appears in the passage extracted from the Constitution does not aim to establish itself as a normative precept to the relationship between well-being and economic modernization.
Philosophy
Classical Philosophy – Medieval (or Scholastic)
- Ancient philosophy
- Medieval philosophy
- Pre-Socratic Philosophers
- Sophistry
- Platonism
- Plato’s Dialectic
- Cave myth
- Aristotelian logic
- Syllogism
- Dogmatism
- Metaphysics
- ethic
- Epicureanism
- Stoicism
- Scholastic
Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
- Modern Philosophy
- Contemporary Philosophy
- Enlightenment philosophers
- Frankfurt School
- Inductive method
- Deductive method
- Rationalism
- Utilitarianism
- Nihilism
- Idealism
- Liberalism
- Existentialism
- Philosophy of science
Philosophy issues that fell on Enem
7. (Enem / 2017) If, therefore, for the things we do there is an end that we desire for itself and everything else is desired in the interest of that end; evidently such an end will be the good, or rather, the great good. But does knowledge perhaps have a great influence on this life? If so, let us endeavor to determine, even if only in general lines, what it is and which of the sciences or faculties constitutes the object. Nobody will doubt that his study belongs to the most prestigious art and that it can more truly be called master art. Now, politics shows to be of this nature, because it determines which sciences should be studied in a State, which are the ones that each citizen must learn, and to what extent; and we see that even the faculties held in the highest regard, such as strategy, economics and rhetoric, are subject to it. Now,as politics uses the other sciences and, on the other hand, legislates on what we should and should not do, the purpose of that science must encompass those of others, so that that purpose will be the human good.
For Aristotle, the relationship between sumo bem and the organization of the polis presupposes that
A) the good of individuals consists of each pursuing their interests.
B) the highest good is given by the faith that the gods are the bearers of the truth.
C) politics is the science that precedes all others in the organization of the city.
D) education aims to form the conscience of each person to act correctly.
E) Democracy protects the political activities necessary for the common good.View Answer
Correct alternative: C) politics is the science that precedes all others in the organization of the city.
A) WRONG. For the philosopher, the political nature of human beings tends to define common interests.
B) WRONG. Aristotle states that the ultimate good is happiness (eudaimonia) and human beings are realized through political life.
C) CORRECT. The question works with three central concepts in Aristotle:
- The human being is a political animal (zoon politikon). The polis is anterior to the individual. Therefore, it is part of human nature to associate and live in community, this is what sets us apart from other animals.
- The human being naturally seeks happiness. Happiness is the greatest Good .
Thus, politics is the science that precedes all others in the organization of the city . It is the guarantee of the realization of human nature in the relationships existing in the polis and the organization of everyone towards happiness.
D) WRONG. Aristotelian philosophy understands the human being as essentially good, not needing “to form the conscience to act correctly”.
E) WRONG. Aristotle was an advocate of politics, but not necessarily democracy. For the philosopher, there are a number of factors that make up a good government and these factors vary according to the contexts, also changing the best form of government.
8 . (Enem / 2017) Such a question transforms the listener; Socrates’ contact paralyzes and embarrasses; it leads him to reflect on himself, to give attention to an unusual direction: the temperamental ones, like Alcibiades, know that they will find with him all the good they are capable of, but they run away because they fear this powerful influence, which leads them to censor. It is above all these young people, many of them almost children, that he tries to impress his orientation.
The text highlights characteristics of the Socratic way of life, which was based on
A) contemplation of the mythical tradition.
B) support of the dialectical method.
C) relativization of true knowledge.
D) valorization of rhetorical arguments.
E) investigation of the fundamentals of nature.
Answer
Correct alternative: B) support of the dialectical method.
A) WRONG. Socrates seeks to abandon myths and opinions in order to build true knowledge.
B) CORRECT. Socrates was an advocate of ignorance as the basic principle for knowledge. Hence the importance of his phrase “I only know that I know nothing”. For him, it is better not to know than to judge to know.
Thus, Socrates constructed a method that, through dialogue ( dialectical method ), false certainties and preconceptions were abandoned, the interlocutor assumed his ignorance. From there, he sought true knowledge.
C) WRONG. Socrates believed that there is true knowledge and it can be awakened through reason. He made several criticisms to the sophists, because they assumed a perspective of relativization of knowledge.
D) WRONG. Sophists claimed that the truth is a mere point of view, being based on the most convincing argument. For Socrates, this position was contrary to the essence of true knowledge, proper to the human soul.
E) WRONG. The philosopher begins the anthropological period of Greek philosophy. Issues related to human life became the center of attention, leaving aside the search for the fundamentals of nature, typical of the pre-Socratic period.