(Chapter1-2 with answers)
I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.
1. ____, whose unfinished Autobiography has become a classic of world literature.
A. Irving B. Franklin
C. Cooper D. Bryant
2. The Declaration of Independence was drafted by ___.
A. Paine B. Washington
C. Franklin D. Jefferson
3. The American literature is about years old.
A. 200 B. 300
C. 400 D. 500
4. Diaries, histories, journals, letters, commonplace book, travel books occupy a major position in the literature of the ____ period.
A. classical B. romantic
C. realistic D. colonial
5. To what rights does the Declaration of Independence say all men are entitled?
A.Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
B.Freedom of Speech and press
C.Freedom of Thought and education
D.Abolishing all evil forms
6. ____ was the only American to sign the four documents that created the United States
A. Franklin B. Jefferson
C. Emerson D. Washington
7. The Pilgrims, a small religious group which left their mother country on the ship “Mayflower”, landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts in .
A. 1492 B. 1628
C. 1620 D. 1603
8. Which does not belong to the official documents that created the United States?
A.A. the Declaration of Independence
B.the Constitution
C.the Crisis
D.the treaty of alliance with France
9. As an explorer and leader, was been known as a national hero in America.
A. Christopher Columbus B. Captain John Smith
C. William Bradford D. Edward Taylor
10. Amid the tumult of the American Revolution, the political philosopher Thomas Paine, whose ____ awakened American enthusiasm for independence?
A. Common Sense B. Autobiography
C. Walden D. History of the Dividing Line
11. “Government is a necessary evil, but its purpose was the benefit of the individual, not his exploitation.” is ____ point of view.
A. Paine’s B. Jefferson’s
C. Cooper’s D. Emerson’s
12. The American Puritanism had been a healthy legacy to the Americans. The rhetoric is plain, with a touch of nobility traceable to the direct influence of ____
A. the Constitution B. the Bible
C. French symbolism D. Shakespeare
13. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of ____.
A. Franklin B. Emerson
C. Jefferson D. Hawthorne
14. Whose writing style is fresh, simple and direct while the rhetoric is plain and honest?.
A. Romanticists B. Transcendentalists
C. American Puritans D. British settlers
15. “Nothing can settle our affairs so expeditiously as an open and ditermined Declaration for Independence” is from ____.
A .Jefferson B. Paine
C. Cooper D. Emerson
16. Of the Puritan values, which one of the following is not included?
A. hard work B. thrift
C. piety D. predestination
17. ____ is the only good American author before the Revolutionary War.
A. Franklin B. Jefferson
C. Emerson D. John Smith
18. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America was passed on July 4, ___
A. 1775 B. 1777
C. 1778 D. 1776
19. ____ was a Puritan and he was also one of the pilgriims who were on the Mayflower and signed the “Mayflower Conpact”.
A. William Fradford B. Captain John Smith
C. John Calvin D. Edward Taylor
20.Which line is from Jefferson?
A.He has refused his Assent to Laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
B.To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him.
C.There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction the envy is ignorance.
D.Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
II. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false. Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.
1.Franklin was already a successful businessman when Washington, Jefferson, and other founders of the nation were born. ( )
2.American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature. ( )
3. The book “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford was not the earliest and most reliable record of the hardships and triumphs of the Pilgrims. ( )
4.Franklin helped establish a tradition in American writing of complex, utilitarian style. ( )
5. Captain John Smith’s writings helped set the form of the exploration and travel narratives that inspired men to move westward to America and across the continent. ( )
6.The American Puritans, like their brothers back in England, were not idealists. ( )
7.Jefferson thought that natural rights of man must be secured by law and government is not necessary. ( )
8.Franklin hoped that some form of reconciliation with Great Britain could be worked out. Pain, on the other hand, welcomed the idea of separation. ( )
9.The Way to Wealth shows how a child discovers through purchase of a toy that one may pay more for something than it is worth. ( )
10.In the formal, largely factual presentation of the Declaration there was no place for the metahpors and allusions upon which Paine relied so frequently. ( )
11.Thomas Paine’s attitude toward separation from Englanddiffer from the attitude of most Americans including Franklin. ( )
12. William Bradford was an adventurer, while Captain John Smith was a Puritan. ( )
III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.
1. When in the Course of human events, if becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, …
2. And if a string do slip, by chance, they soon
Do screw it up again: whereby
They set it in a more melodious tune
And a diviner harmony.
For in Christ’s coach they sweetly sing.
As they to glory ride therein.
3. Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himself amongst them, and he not only diverted them from surprising the fort, but procured his own liberty, and got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, that those savages admired him more than their own Quiyouckosucks. The manner how they used and delivered him is as follows.
4. After these things he returned to his place called Sowans, some 40 miles from this place, but Squanto continued with them, and was their interpreter, and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation, he directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died.
5. From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books. Pleas’d with a Pilgrim’s Progress, my first Collection was of John Bunyan’s Works, in separate little Volumes.
Key to Chapter 1-2 练习答案
I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.
1. B 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. A
6. A 7. C 8. C 9.B 10. A
11.B 12. B 13. A 14. C 15. B
16.D 17. A 18.D 19. A 20. A
II. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false. Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.
1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T 6. F 7. F 8. T 9.F 10. T
11. T 12. F
III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.
1. Jefferson’s the Declaration of Independence
2. Edward Taylor’s The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended
3. Captain John Smith’s The Generall Historie
4. William Bradford’s The Pilgrims Meet the Indians
5. Franklin’s The Autobiography 下载本文
