Tenth Muse

C. Best Muse D. First Muse

11. The ship “__________” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66days to
beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims
ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A. Sunflower B. Armada

C. Mayflower D. Pequod

Ⅳ. Identification of Fragment.

I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,

The black-clad cricket bear a second part;

They kept one tune and played on the same string

Seeming to glory in their little art.

Small creatures abject thus their voices raise,

And in their kind resound their Maker’s praise,

Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays?

1. This is the ninth of the Contemplations written by an early American woman
writer. What is her name?

2. Make a brief comment on this short poem.

Part Two

I. Blank Filling.

1. The War of Independence lasted eight years till _________.

2. Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called __________.

3. Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was
appropriately born into an age of _______.

4. Paine’s second most important work _______ was an impassioned plea against
hereditary monarchy.

5. On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet _________ appeared.

6. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was __________.

7. ____________ was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution”.

8. _________ has been called the “Father of American Poetry.”

9. In 1791, probably with Jefferson’s support, _________ established in
Philadelphia the National Gazette.

10. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of _______ and
Revolution.

II. Decide Whether the Statements Are True or False.

1. The War if Independence lasted for eight years and ended in the formation of
a Federative bourgeois democratic republic, that is , the United States of
America.

2. At the initial period the spread of ideas of the American Enlightenment was
largely due to journalism.

3. Franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassic ideals of
clarity, restraint, simplicity, and balance.

4. In Philadelphia, Franklin edited the Pennsylvania Magazine, and contributed
to the Pennsylvania Journal.

5. For the pamphlet Common Sense, Paine was charged with treason and fled to
France, where he was made a citizen.

6. Philip Freneau was a most important writer in American poetry of the
eighteenth century.

7. Freneau was a close friend and political associate of President Thomas
Jefferson.

8. Freneau wrote impassioned verse in support of the American Revolution.

9. Most American literature in the eighteenth century was political.

10. During the 1770s no one in America could claim to be a professional novelist,
poet, or playwright.

III. Multiple choice.

1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the