Exercise Four
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I.
Blanks: ( 10points, 1 point for each blank)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are 9 items and 10 blanks. Fill in the best answer on
the Answer Sheet according to the knowledge you have learned.
1.
The first American literature was neither ____ nor really ____.
2.
Of
the
immigrants
who
came
to
America
in
the
first
three
quarters
of
the
seventeenth
century, the overwhelming majority was _____.
3.
The English immigrants who settled on America鈥檚 northern
seacoast were called _____,
so named after those who wished to 鈥減urify鈥?nbsp;the Church of England.
4.
Washington Irving, the Father of American literature, developed the _____ as a genre in
American literature.
5.
Franklin鈥檚 best writing is found in his masterpiece
_____.
6.
The most outstanding poet in America of the 18
th
century was _____.
7.
In the early 19
th
century, 鈥淩ip Van Winkle鈥?nbsp;had established _____鈥檚 reputation at home
and abroad, and designated the beginning of American Romanticism.
8.
_____ has sometimes been considered the father of the modern short story.
9.
In
1850,
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
brought
out
his
masterpiece
_____,
the
story
of
a
triangular love affair in colonial America.
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II.
Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement of America in
the early 17
th
century through the end of ________ century.
A. the 18
th
B. the 19
th
C. the 20
th
D. 21th
2.
New-
England鈥?/p>
s Plantation
was published in 1630 by ________
A. Francis Higginson
B. William Bradford
C. John Smith
D. Michael Wigglesworth
3. Of all the books written by Michael Wigglesworth the beat known is ________