The first writings that we call American were the narratives and ______ of the early settlements.

A. journals
B. poetry
C. drama
D. folklores

Early in the seventeenth century, the English settlements in______ began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.

A. Virginia andPennsylvania
B. Massachusetts and New York
C. Virginia and Massachusetts
D. New York and Pennsylvania

Whose reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, havebeen regarded as the first distinct American literature written in English?

A. John Winthrop’s
B. John Smith’s
C. William Bradford’s
D. Christopher Columbus's

The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist ______.

A. John Winthrop
B. John Smith
C. William Bradford
D. John Goodwin

The best of Puritan poets was ______, whose complete edition ofpoems appeared in 1960, more than two hundred years after his death.

AnneBradstreet
B. Michael Wigglesworth
C. Thomas Hooker
D. EdwardTaylor

Who among the following translated the Bible into the Indian tongue?

A. Roger Williams
B. John Eliot
Cotton Mather
D. John Smith

William Bradford used a word “______” to describe the community of believers who sailed from Southampton England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.

The General History of Virginia contains Smith's most famous tale of how the Indian princess named ______ saved him from the wrath ofher father.