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Benjamin Franklin...
The most honored American figure.
Was the best example of Enlightenment in America.
Can be paralleled with the US.
Contributed to the growing sense of an American Idiom.
2
Who was one of the first novelists in the US ?
Charles Dickens
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Brocken Brown
Henry David Thoreau
3
In the early beginnings, New England was the leading intellectual and spiritual center of the colonies.
True
False
4
Puritanists were for decorative literature (entertaining literature).
False
True
5
Benjamin Franklin wrote
Common Sense
in 1776
True
False
6
What were the main categories of writings ?
Historical works : mainly the discover of the American continent.
Bibliographies and diaires : manuscripts.
Poetry : religious ones and domestic ones.
Sermons and theological works.
7
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence.
False
True
8
Philis Wheatley was the first black women to be a poet.
True
False
9
Saint Jean Crevecoeur wasn't a myth maker.
False
True
10
Thomas Paine contributed a political agitation to a full crisis.
True
False
11
Which one of these author wasn't a political author ?
Thomas Jefferson.
Benjamin Franklin.
Thomas Paine.
Saint-Jean Crevecoeur.
12
The one dominating motive was the myth of America as a new garden of Eden = Adamic myth.
True
False
13
In what century did the novel appear in the US ?
20th.
19th.
17th.
18th.
14
What are the two major periods in American Literature ?
19th century : Poe and Transcendantalists
18th century : the begginning of American Literature
1920 : international recognition
15
Which of these 4 dates made a great difference in American Literature ?
1783 : Independence of the US recognized by the Treaty of Paris.
1776 : Declaration of Independence.
1732 : Last colony created.
16
While Jamestown was founded in 1607, in Europe, Shakespeare had already written Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
False
True
17
The Enlightenment didn't have a great impact on ideologies.
True
False
