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Exerci for Revolutionary Period
I Blank filling
1 The War of Independence lasted eight years till ____. (1783)
2 The United States of America was founded in ____. (1783)
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3 Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called ____. (the General Magazine)
4 Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece ____. (Autobiography)
5 Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of ____. (Revolution)
6 On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet ____ appeared. (Common Sen)
7 A ries of sixteen pamphlets by Paine was entitled ____.
(The American Crisis)
8 Paine’s cond most important work ____ was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy. (The Rights of Man)
9 The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was ____. (Philip Freneau)
10 Philip Freneau’s famous poem ____ was written about his imprisoned experience. (The British Prison Ship)
11 ____ was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution”. (Philip Freneau)
12 ____ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. (Philip Freneau)
13 In 1791, probably with Jefferson’s support, ____ established in Philadelphia the National Gazette. (Philip Freneau)
14 In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of ____ and Revolution. (Reason)
II Decide whether the statements are True of Fal.
1 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. (T)
塞特神2 The War for Independence was a revolution, but it was the bourgeoisie that reaped its fruits. The rulers of the new state were hostile to the laboring people. (T)
3 At the initial period the spread of ideas of the American Enlightenment was largely due to journalism. (T)
4 Franklin emed to reprent the age of reason and revolution in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change. (T)
5 Franklin was a pro stylist who writing reflected the neoclassic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity, and balance. (T)
6 Franklin was the epitome of the Enlightenment, the versatile, practical embodiment of rational man in the 18th century. (T)
7 In Philadelphia, Franklin edited the Pennsylvania Magazine, and contributed to the Pennsylvania Journal. (F; Franklin→Paine)
8 Common Sen boldly advocated a Declaration of Independence. (T)
9 For the pamphlet Common Sen, Paine was charged with treason and fled to France, where he was made a citizen. (F; Common Sen→ The Rights of Man)
10 Paine also edited the first colonial magazine the General Magazine. (F; Paine →Franklin)
11 Philip Freneau was a most important writer in American poetry of the eighteenth century. (T)
12 American poetry of the eighteenth century has an imitative character, imitating the reigning English models of the eighteenth century. (T)
13 Freneau was a clo friend and political associate of President Thomas Jefferson. (T)
14 Freneau was once captured by the British and spent sometime on a prison ship. (T)
15 Freneau wrote impassioned ver in support of the American Revolution. (T)
16 Like Thomas Paine, Freneau was a strong supporter of the French Revolution. (T)
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17 Freneau was noteworthy first becau of the nature of his poems. They were truly American and very patriotic. In this respect, he reflected the
spirit of his age. (T)
18 Freneau was neoclassical by training and taste yet romantic in esntial spirit. (T)
19 Most American literature in the eighteenth century was political. (T)
20 During the 1770s no one in America could claim to be a professional novelist, poet, or playwright. (T)
III Multiple choice
1 In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant spirit.
A Humanism
B Rationalism
C Revolution
D Evolution
2 In American literature, the Enlighteners were oppod to ____.
A the colonial order
百川东到海何时复西归B religious obscurantism
C the Puritan tradition
D the cular literature
3 The English colonies in North America ro in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted ____ in 1776.
扫弦怎么扫A the Declaration of Independence
B the Sugar Act
安卓连接电脑C the Stamp Act通告是什么意思
