（完整版）吴伟仁美国文学第一册学习指南填空题集合
1.Early in the venteenth century, the English ttlements in Virginia and
上巳修禊社谢两园Massachutts began the main stream of what we recognize as the American
national history.
2.The earliest ttlers in America include Dutch, Swedes, Germans,
French,Spaniards, Italians and Portugue.
3.The first permanent English ttlement in North America was established at
Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.亚伯特王子结
4.Captain John Smith’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have
been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.
5.There was a little of the religious ferment ans zeal that inspired such a tide of
literature to flow Puritan New England.
山羊爷爷的故事6.The Puritans had come to New English for the sake of religious freedom, while
Virginia had been planted mainly as a commercial venture.
7.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much
of the earliest American writing, including the rmons, books, and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather.
8.William Bradford, first governor of Plymouth, and John Winthrop, who held the
same post at Boston, were superior to even the remarkable qualities that
distinguished many of their associations. Each has left a priceless gift: the former, The History of Plymouth plantation, the latter, the History of New England.
9.The best way to learn more of the colonial Puritan mind is to meet two important
figures, John Cotton and Roger Williams.陈国和
爱的死心塌地10.Most Puritan ver was directly plodding, but the work of two writers, Anne
Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, ro to the level of real poetry.
1.Who were the earliest ttlers? Where were they then? Who was the most
influential group?
2.What were the first American writings?
3.Could you give a description of American Puritans?
1.As we have en, theology dominated the Puritan pha of American writing.
Politics was the next great subject to command the attention of the best minds. 2.Freedom was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine’s Common
Sen and the eloquence of the Declaration of Independence as by the weapons of Was
hington or Lafayette.
3.The British government hampered colonial economy by requiring Americans to
ship raw materials abroad and to import finished goods at prices higher than the lost of making them in this country.
4.American Enlightenment dealt a decisive blow upon the puritan traditions and
brought to life cular education and literature.
5.The cular ideals of American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and
career of Benjamin Franklin, who instructed his countrymen as a printer, not a priest.
运动会总结6.In 1783, the year the United States achieved its independence, Noah Webster
declared, “America must be as independent in literature as she is in politics, as famous for the arts as for arms” .
7.Born in Boston in 1706, Benjamin Franklin went to Philadelphia as a young man
and began his career as a printer.
8.From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous Poor Richard’s
我只觉得他们吵闹Almanac, an annual collection of proverbs.
9.Thomas Paine was the “Great Commoner of Mankind”, son of a nominal Quaker
of Thetford, England.
10.On January 10,1776, Paine’s famous pamphlets Common Sen appeared.
11.Philip Freneau is perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-Revolutionary
period.
12.Freneau was neoclassical by training and taste yet romantic in esntial spirit.
13.For a few years, writing with sporadic fluency, Freneau earned his living
variously as farmer, journalist and a captain.
14.As a poet, Freneau heralded American literary independence, his clo
obrvation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and
other native American subjects.
15.Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”, and it i ultimately in a
historical estimate that Freneau is important.
1.What is your impression upon the person of Benjamin Franklin?
2.What belief does the Autobiography stand for？
3.What is Thomas Paine’s Common Sen about?
4.What does Freneau’s poem The Wild Hony Suckle indicate?
5.Say something about the style of the Autobiography
1.In 1828 the election of the frontier hero Andrew Jackson as the venth President
of the United States had brought an effective end to the “Virginia Dynasty” of American President.
