IITheLiteratureofReasonandRevolution.doc

Part II. The Literature of Reason and Revolution I. Fill in the blanks. 1. The War of Independence lasted eight years till_____. 2. The United States of America was founded in _____. 3. Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called _____. 4. Benjamin Franklin s best writing is found in his masterpiece ________ . 5. Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of____________ . 6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paines famous pamphlet ________ appeared. 7. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled _____________ . 8. Thomas Paines second most important work_____________ was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy. 9. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was _____________ . 10. Philip Freneau s famous poem____________ was written about his imprisoned experience. 11. ___________ was considered as the poet of the American Revolution. 12. _________ has been called the Father of American Poetry. 13.In 1791, probably with Thomas Jeffersons support, ___________ established in Philadelphia the National Gazette. 14. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of _________ and Revolution. 15. The Calvinist beliefs brought about the Great Awakening during the 1730s and 1740s. _________ was the most influential among the believers. 16. Jonathan Edwards work Images or Shadows of Divine Things anticipated the nature symbolism of___________ in the 19th century. 17. If we say Jonathan Edwards represents the upper levels of the American mind, _________ represents the lower levels. II. Decide whether the statements are true or false. 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. 2. The War of Independence was a revolution, but it was the bourgeoisie that reaped its fruits. The rulers of the new state were h