美国文学史及作品选读习题集.doc

2 The Literature of Colonial America Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks 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. The term “Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of ______. 3. _______College was established in 1636, with a printing press set up nearly in 1639. 4. The first permanent English settlement in North American was established at _____, Virginia. 5. ______ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established Jamestown. 6. John Smith published _____ books in all. 7. In the book _____ John Smith wrote that “here nature and liberty afford us that freely which in English we want, or it costs us dearly.” 8. The General History of Virginia contains Smith’s most famous tale of how the Indian princess named ______ saved him from the wrath of her father. 9. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _____values that dominated much of the early American writing. 10. 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. _______Bradstreet was one such poet. 11. Bradford used a word “_______” to describe the community of believers who sailed from Southampton England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. 12. In 1620, ______was elected Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts. 13. From 1621 until his death, ______probably possessed more power than any other colonial governor. 14. 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 singing of the “______Compact”. 15. The History of New England is a priceless gift _____left us. 16. The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the