He knew the tune; it was a familiar one in the choir of the village meeting-house. The verse died heavily away, and was lengthened by a chorus not of human voices, but of all the sounds of the benighted wilderness, pealing in awful harmony together. Goodman Brown cried out; and his cry was lost to his own ear, by its unison with the cry of the desert
Questions:
A. What is the title of the story from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?
B. Where is the protagonist now? And why did he go there?
C. What is the author's major concern in this story?
【正确答案】：A."Young Goodman Brown". Hawthorne
B. In the woods. He went there to attend a witches'Sabbath.
C. Hawthorne is mainly concered with the theme of guilt and evil in this story.
