《专八美国文学》word版

八级模拟美国文学常识

1．The first colony was set up in_________ at, ______off the coast of North Carolina; The second colony was more permanent:______, establis hed in________.

A.1585 ...Roanoke,...Jamestown (1607)

B. Jamestown...1607,...concord, (1609)

C. 1492,…New England…1585 …Roanoke

D. 1492...New England ...Jamestown (1607)

2. ________ wrote the story recounts how Pocahontas, favorite daughte r of Chief Powhatan, saved Captain Smiths life when he was a prisoner of the chief. Later, when the English persuaded Powhatan to give Poc ahontas to them as a hostage, her gentleness, intelligence, and beaut y impressed the English, and, in 1614, she married John Rolfe, an Eng lish gentleman. The marriage initiated an eight-year peace between th e colonists and the Indians, ensuring the survival of the struggling new colony.

A. Cristopher Columbus

B. Harioit

C. Winthrope

D. Captain John Smith

3. The_____ definition of good writing was that which brought home a full awareness of the importance of worshipping God and of the spirit ual dangers that the soul faced on Earth

A. Prostestant

B. Puritan

C. Catholic

D. Indian

4. The link between_________ is Both rest on ambition, hard work, an

d an intens

e striving for success.

A. Puritanism and consumerism

B. Capitalism and commercialism

C. Puritanism and capitalism

mercialism and capitalism

5 The first Puritan colonists who settled _________exemplified the se riousness of Reformation Christianity. Known as the "_________," they were a small group of believers who had migrated from England to Hol land -- even then known for its religious tolerance -- in 1608, durin g a time of persecutions.

A. Roanoke…development

B. Roanoke…progress

C. New England… adventure

D. New England… pilgrims

6. Of Plymouth Plantation was written by ______

A.William Bradford

B.Captain John Smith

C.Hariot

D.Cristopher Clumbus 7. “If ever two were one, then surely we./If ever man were loved by wife, then th ee;/If ever wife was happy in a man,/Compare with me, ye women, if yo u can./I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold/Or all the rich es that the East doth hold./My love is such that rivers cannot quench (平熄),/Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense./Thy love is su ch I can no way repay,/The heavens reward thee manifold（多种）, I pr ay./Then while we live, in love let s so persevere/That when we live no more, we may live ever” is form the first published book of poem s by an American was also the first American book to be published by a woman -- __________(c. 1612-1672). It is not surprising that the bo ok was published in England, given the lack of printing presses in th e early years of the first American colonies

A. Miss Bradford

B. Anne Bradstreet

C. Miss John Smith

D. Anne Bradford

8. 500-page Metrical History of Christianity was written by______

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Winthrope

C. Edward Taylor

D. Captain John Smith

9. The 18th-century American ________was a movement marked by an emph asis on rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in p lace of monarchy. Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the ideals of justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man.

A. Renaissance

B. Revolution

C. Puritanism

D. Enlightenment

10. ________, whom the Scottish philosopher David Hume called America s "first great man of letters," embodied the Enlightenment ideal of h umane rationality. Practical yet idealistic, hard-working and enormou sly successful.

A. Captain John Smith

B. Edward Taylor

C. Benjamin Franklin

D. Anne Bradstreet