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“美国文学”综合练习一
Chapter 1 Literature of Colonial America
Complete the sentence with proper words or expressions.
1. The Puritan philosophy known as ( ) was important in New England during the colonial time, and is the most enduring shaping influence in American thought and literature.
2. The term “Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of ( ) who tried to purify the Church.
3. Among all the settlers in the New Continent, ( ) settlers were the most influential.
4. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the ( ) values that dominated much of the early American writing.
5. ( ) Bradstreet was one of those poets who emerged in the seventeenth century, adapting the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strange, new environment.
6. Among the Puritans who wrote verse, Anne Bradstreet and ( ) rose to the level of real poetry.
7. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by ( ).
8. The Day of Doom, a long-standing best-seller both in America and in England, was written by ( ).
9. The War of Independence lasted eight years till ( ), and the United States of America was founded this year.
10. Benjamin Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece ( ).
11. Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet ( ) is often regarded as the greatest of the Revoluti
onary pamphlets. The argument divides into four parts and is characteristic of plainness.
12. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ( ).
13. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was ( ).
14. ( ), who was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution”, has been called the “Father of American Poetry.” He represented the efforts for literary ( ) in America.
15. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of ( ) and Revolution.
16. The Calvinist beliefs brought about the Great Awakening during the 1730s and 1740s. ( ) was the most influential among the believers.
17. If we say Jonathan Edwards represents the upper levels of the American mind, ( ) represents the lower levels.
Decide whether the statements are true or false.
1. John Winthrop’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been regarded as the first distinct American literature written in English. Captain John Smith
2. Captain John Smith usually was regarded as the first American writer.
3. Captain John Smith’s book A Map of Virginia; With a Description of the Country was a guide to the country and invitation to the bold spirits.
4. The Puritans were originally a group of people who separated from the church of England in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I.
5. The best of Puritan poets was Edward Taylor, whose complete edition of poems appeared in 1960, more than two hundred years after his death.
6. The War of Independence lasted for eight years and ended in the formation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic, that is, the United States of America.
7. Benjamin Franklin seemed to represent the age of reason and revolution in his paradox
ical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change.
8. Benjamin Franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity and balance.
9. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the Enlightenment, the versatile, practical embodiment of rational man in the 18th century.
10. Commen Sense boldly advocated a Declaration of Independence.
11. American poetry of the 18th century has an imitative character, imitating the reigning English models of the 18th century.
12. Philip Freneau was noteworthy first because of the nature of his poems. They were truly American and very patriotic. In his aspect, he reflected the spirit of his age.
13. Philip Freneau was neoclassical in training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.
14. Most American literature in the 18th century was political.
Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.
1. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the ( ).
A. Revolutionism
B. Reason
C. Individualism
D. Rationalism
2. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the ( ) who appeared in America.
A. Ninth Muse

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