陶洁版美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案解析

美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案陶洁（部分）

Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin

Questions

1.W hy 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

2.W hat 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.

3.H ow 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.

selection?

It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and concision( 言简意赅 ). The narrative is

lucid( structure is simple, the imagery is homely(

Unit 2 Edgar Allen Poe

1. W ho is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress?

Montresor.

Fortunato, one of wine experts insulted him, so he wanted to murder him.

2. W hat 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.

4.What features do you find in

the style of the above

易懂的 ), the 朴素的 ).

Fortunato is anxious to determine whether or not it is truly Amontillado, so he goes to the vault with Montresor.

3.W hat happens to Fortunato in the end?

He was walled up alive behind bricks in a wine cellar.

4.D escribe briefly how Poe characterizes Montresor and

Fortunato as contrasts?

Poe uses color imagery to characterize them. Montresor face is covered in a black silk mask, In contrast, Fortunato dresses the motley-colored costume of the court fool, who gets literally and tragically fooled by Montresor's masked motives.

The color schemes here represent the irony of Fortunato's death sentence.

Through the acts, words, and thoughts of??Fortunato,we know He is greedy, he was lured into the dark and somber vaults just because a cask of Amontillado.

This is also due to his bad habit of bibulosity（酗酒）. He lost himself on hearing the wine.

At the same time, he was cheated by his enemy, which reflected his ignorance.