美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案陶洁 ( 部分 ) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin Questions did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother. did he arrive in Philadephia? First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight or nine o’clock, on the Sunday morning and landed at the Market Street wharf. features do you find in the style of the above selection? It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and concision(言简意赅 ). The narrative is lucid(易懂的 ), the structure is simple, the imagery is homely(朴素的 ). Unit 2 Edgar Allen Poe is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? Montresor. Fortunato, one of wine experts insulted him, so he wanted to murder him. is the pretext he uses to lure Fortunato to his wine cellar? He baits Fortunato by telling him he has obtained what he believes to be a cask of Amontillado a rare and valuable sherry wine. Fortunato is anxious to determine whether or not it is truly Amontillado, so he goes to the vault with Montresor. happens to Fortunato in the end? He was walled up alive behind br...
