KINGDOM OF English Language Department

SAUDI ARABIA Course Course Code:

Ministry Of Title: American Literature ENG 4850
Education
Course Exam Wednesday
Instructor: Dr. Bechir Saoudi Date: 21 - 4 – 1441 H

Allowed
Time: 2 Hours No. of pages: 4 Total Marks: 50

Final Exam
Academic Year 1441 H, First Semester
Student Name: Academic
No:
Questions Question Question 2 Question3 Question Question Question6 Question 7 Obtained
1 4 5 Marks:
Marks / 13 / 13 /7 /7 /10 /50
Coursework Total Marks /50
Final Exam Marks /50
Total Marks /100
Course Instructor Signature Dr.
Saoudi

Fill in the blanks with words from the list (13 marks)

A/

will, useful, theology, seems, scholar, Raging, necessitate, lest, divine, counsel,
congregation, celebrated, Bonifacius, bedfellow.

Franklin said to Mather's son, who also was a Boston minister, that if I have been a
____________________ citizen it is because of ____________________.
Children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed ____________________ the Devil be your
____________________.
Born to a rich Puritan family in Northampton, England, Bradstreet was a well-read
____________________, especially influenced by the works of French poet Du Bartas, who was
____________________ for his ____________________ poetry.
And the one career that really ____________________ suited for him is the ministry because that
does ____________________ great intellectual power, a great understanding of the bible and
____________________.

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And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the
____________________ and the heart to get here.
A pastor gives advice and ____________________ to people from the ____________________ or
community.

____________________ fires have consumed over 200000 acres and left douzens dead.

B/
whole, turn, tragedy, Puritan, numbered, hires, height, grief, grave, era, destroyed, alienating.

Increase Mather dies early in the 1720s when he's about 90, and Cotton Mather follows him to the
____________________ just a few years later.
In this poem “Upon the Burning of Our House”, Anne Bradstreet rejects the anger and
____________________ that this worldly ____________________ has caused her.
His father ____________________ him to be his assistant, and of course Increase Mather, at this
time, is at the ____________________ of his career…
Her personal library was said to have ____________________ over 9000 books, although many
were ____________________ when her home burned down.
He wrote to Mather's son that it was that book that gave him a ____________________ of thinking
that influenced his ____________________ life.
He is one of the most brilliant men of his ____________________, and has a way of
____________________ people. As I said, he has one foot in this world of science and another in
the world of ____________________ theology.

True or False? (13 marks)

Cotton Mather was trying to explore scientific curiosities. ___
Franklin was one of the most brilliant students in the history of Harvard. ___
Increase Mather was the leader of the Puritan movement in the late 19th century. ___
The last witch trial ended early 1693. ___
The Mathers were not involved in the prosecution of Quakers in the 1660s. ___
The only position open to Anne Bradstreet was as the assistant pastor at her father's church. ___
A Puritan is a person who is strict in moral or religious matters. ___
Anne Bradstreet was born in England to a Puritan family. ___
Ben Franklin enters Harvard when he's about 10 years old. ___

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Ben Franklin started to work with his brothers in a print shop at the age of 12. ___
Grave is another name for cemetery. ___
Cotton Mather had a very distinguished theological pedigree. ___
Cotton Mather is one of the most misunderstood figures in the history of Boston. ___

Match parts of statements in A with the corresponding parts in B (7 marks)

A B
1- He fitted the legs of his armchair…
2- Group things into…
3- God would not allow a good…
4- Cotton Mather is interested in the good of
New England, …
5- Comfort the grieving person…
6- A recent smallpox epidemic…
7- To strengthen me in my distress…
8- We have done everything that could be
done…
9- The people of Salem turned…
10- The next gale that sweeps from the
north…
11- Spectral evidence is part…
12- My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
… 1692.
13- I wakened was with thundering noise…
14- He had a passion for “paying it
forward”…
a- little chunks of time.
b- fueled the witchcraft hysteria in the Salem
community.
c- And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice.
d- And not to leave me succourless.
e- and giving back to the community.
f- against the trials at the end.
g- with genuine sympathy.
h- with curved pieces of wood.
i- the good in all of its ways.
j- will bring to our ears the clash of
resounding arms.
k- to avert the storm which is now coming on.
l- person's image to be used by a witch.
m- of the prosecution of witches in Salem in
n- Nor ought but love from thee give
recompense.

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B

Answer the following questions (7 marks)

What does tyranny mean? _____________________________________________________

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What was Thomas Paine's Common Sense about?

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What does "putting the cart before the house" mean?

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Who were the most influential writers of the Colonial Period?

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Write a 10-line paragraph about romanticism. (10 marks)

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