Quiz:
2. Which of the following was NOT a genre or type of text that appeared regularly in the body of literature produced by sixteenth-century Europeans involved in the exploration of America?
a)  propaganda, including lush descriptions of the new world
b)  theatrical pieces representing the political maneuverings of Europeans inside colonial outposts
c)  political briefs meant to inform or influence policy decisions made at a distance
d)  subversive or even mutinous literature of witness
→ propaganda- information, ideas, opinions or images, often only giving one part of an argument, which are broadcast, published or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions
→ theatrical- belonging or relating to the theatre, or to the performance or writing of plays, opera, etc.
→ subversive- trying to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system
3. Bringing oral literature to page always involves not just translation of Native words into English words, but also another kind of translation. What is it?
 c)  the translation of the physically embodied, performative quality of oral literature

4. How did the Spanish colonizers deal with the decimation of the Native populations with which they came into contact in the Caribbean and the mainlands of Central and South America?
 d)  They introduced African slavery into their colonies and forced the slaves to do the labor they had initially counted on Natives to perform.

5. The “new world” can most usefully and accurately be thought of as:
 d)  a genuinely new set of social relationships characterized by initial wonder, followed by cultural borrowing, political wrangling, and resourceful exploitation, by all the peoples brought into contact with one another
(禁酒令: Gatsby靠進口私酒和偽造證券致富)
6. What is the Puritan doctrine of election?
 d)  the belief that God had chosen, before their birth, the people he would save and the people he would damn → Predestiny
(連戰:1.沒掉飛機 2.沒重大交通事故 3.全民健保)
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講義
p.165 The Tenth Muse Lately
The Revolution period (都是一些政治人物)
The Declaration of Independence
→ 我們賦予他們權力，請他們治理國家

字彙課本
三權分立: Three branches of government- legislative, executive, judiciary
ratification 立法單位
impeachment 彈劾- to make a formal statement saying that a public official is guilty of a serious offence in connection with their job, especially in the US (沒有一任美國總統是彈劾下台的)
referendum 公投- a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question

Scottish Referendum:
蘇格蘭獨立公投百日倒數史上最重要投票
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qw7HixJmyE
Gordon Brown on looming Scottish independence vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weDlvK0eVaw

*字彙Chapter 22填空會出在期中考