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美国文学复习资料 (上)
Exercises of Part One and Two
I. Blank Filling
1. Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was ________, an English soldier of fortune,
whose reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinct American literature written in English.
2. Almost a hundred years earlier the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and other parts of Central and South America
had been occupied by the _______.
3. The term ―Puritan‖ was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of
________
4. ________ College was established in 1636, with a printing press set up nearly in 1639.
5. Among all the settlers in the New Continent, _______ settlers were the most influential.
6. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at ________, Virginia.
7. ________ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established Jamestown.
8. 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.‖
9. General History of Virginia contains Smith‘s most famous tale of how the Indian princess named __________
saved him from the wrath of her father.
10. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _________ values that dominated much of the early
American writing.
11. The American poets who emerged in the 17th century adapted the style of established _______ poets to the
subject matter confronted in a strange, new environment. ________ was one such poet, who composed a collection of poems named The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.
12. Bradford himself used a word ―_____‖to describe the community of believers who sailed from Southampton
England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachussets in 1620.
13. In 1620, _______ was elected Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
14. From 1621 until his death, _______ probably possessed more power than any other colonial governor.
15. Bradford‘s work ________ consists of two books.
16. Bradford‘s work consists of two books. The first book deals with the persecutions of the Separatists in
Scrooby, England, the second book describes the signing of the ― ______ Compact‖.
17. The History of New England is a priceless gift left us by _______.
18. _______ wrote his most impressive work The Magnalia Christi America.
19. The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period was ________
20. The Puritan Philosophy known as _________ was important in New England during colonial time, and had a
profound influence on the early American mind for several generations.
21. Many Puritans wrote verse, but the work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and Edward _______, whose main
work was a representative sermon A True Sight of Sin and whose best verse was to be found in series called ―Preparatory Meditations‖, rose to the level of real poetry.
22. A representative sermons A True Sight of Sin is ________‘s main work.
23. Before his death, Jonathan ________ had gained a position as America‘s first systematic philosopher, whose
masterpiece was Freedom of the Will
24. Jonathan Edwards‘ masterpiece is ________.
25. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by _______.
26. _______‘s best verse is to be found in a series called ―Preparatory Meditations‖.
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