美国文学分章练习题题及答案.doc

Part I. The Literature of Colonial America I. Fill in the following Blanks. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ______. Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was _____, an English soldier of fortune, whose reports fo exploratin, publiseed in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinct American literaature written in English. Almost a hundred years earlier the Caribbean Islands, Mexicl, and other parts of Central and South America were occupied by the _____. The term Puritan was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of _____. _____ College was established in 1636, with a printing press set up nearly in 1639. Among all the settlers in the New Continent, _____ settlers were the most influential. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at _____, Virginia. _____ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established Jamestown. 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. Genearl History of Virginia contains Smiths most famous tale of how the Indian princess named _____ saved him from the wrath of her father. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _____ values that dominated much of the early American writing. The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter comfronled in a slrang, new environment.? __________ Bradstreet was one such poet. William Bradford himself used a word ????? ________ ?to describe the community of believers who sailed from Southampton, England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. In 1620,____________ was elected Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts. From 1621 until his death,?? ___________ probably possessed more power than any other colonial governor. William Bradfords work?___________ consi