文学作业Part I exercises

Part I. The Literature of Colonial America

I. Fill in the following Blanks.

1.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and

American literature was Puritanism______.

2.Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was

_John Smith____, an English soldier of fortune, whose reports fo

exploratin, publiseed in the early 1600s, have been described as the

first distinct American literaature written in English.

3.The term "Puritan" was applied to those settlers who originally were

devout members of the Church of _England_.

4.Among all the settlers in the New Continent, _____ settlers were the

most influential.

5.The first permanent English settlement in North America was

established at _Jamestown____, Virginia.

6._John_Smith___ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established

Jamestown.

7.In the book _____ John Smith wrote that "here nature and liberty

afford us that freely which in England we want, or it costs us

dearly."

8.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _purtian____

values that dominated much of the early American writing.

9.The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century

adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strange, new environment. _Anne_________

Bradstreet was one such poet.

10.The History- of New England is a priceless gift left us by John

Winthrop______.

11.The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial

period was Roger Williams______

12.The Puritan philosophy known as _John Cotton_______ was

important in New E ngland during colonial time, and had a profound

influence on the early American mind for several generations.

13.Many Puritans wrote verse, but the work of two writers, Anne Brad-

Street and_Edward Taylor________ , rose to the level of real poetry.

14.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of

poems composed by_Anne Bradstreet_________ .

15._________ 's best verse is to be found in a juries called

"Preparatory Meditations" .

II. Make multiple choices.

1. English literature in the America is only about more than __C______ years old.

A. 500

B. 400

C. 200

D. 100

2. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist

____B________ .

A. John Winthrop

B. John Smith

C. William Bradford

D. John Goodwin

3. The Puritan dominating values were_ABCD__________ .

A. hard work

B. thrift

C. piety

D. sobriety

4. The early history of_____A____ Colony was the history of Bradford' s leader ship.

A. Plymouth

B. Jamestown

C. New England

D. Mayflower

5. Choose those names that were named after English monarch or land.__BD____

A. Georgia

B. New York

C. Carolina

D. New Hampshire

6. __D________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.

A. William Bradford

B. Anne Bradstreet

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Captain John Smith

7. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the____C______ .

A. Revolutionism

B. Reason

C. Individualism

D. Rationalism

8. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the " ___B_____ " who appeared in America.

A. Ninth Muse

B. Tenth Muse

C. Best Muse

D. First Muse

9. The ship "__C______ " carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A. Sunflower

B. Armada

C. Mayflower

D. Pequod

IV. Identify the fragments.

I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,

The black-clad cricket bear a second part;

They kept one tune and played on the same string.

Seeming to glory in their little art.

Small creatures abject thus their voices raise,

And in their kind resound their Maker' s praise,

Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays? Questions:

1.This is the ninth of the "Contemplations" written by an early

American woman writer. What is her name? Anne Bradstreet

2.Make a brief comment on this short poem.

V. Answer the questions.

What is the significance of American Puritanism in American

literature?