The House of the Seven Gables was based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on ( )’s family when his great - grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.
A、Nathaniel Hawthorne
B、Washington Irving
C、Ezra Pound
D、Walt Whitman
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：《有七个尖角阁楼的房子》是以一个传说为基础的，当霍桑的曾祖父在塞勒姆巫术审判担任法官的时候，他的家人受到了诅咒。
