2018 Cask of Amontillado English 9

Who is the narrator of "The Cask of Amontillado"?

• Luchesi
• Montresor
• Fortunato
• Amontillado

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What is the main conflict of the story? 

• Montresor vs. Himself
• Montresor vs. Fortunato
• Montresor vs. Luchesi
• Montresor Vs. Society

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The insult that Fortunato inflicts on Montresor

• concerns Montresor's home
• concerns Montresor's heritage
• insults Montresor's knowledge of wine
• is not revealed in the story

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If Fortunato had not been under the influence of alcohol, he might have wondered why Montresor

• was carrying a trowel
• expressed concern for him
• offered him wine
• mentioned Luchesi

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Montresor stops working when Fortunato begins rattling his chains because Montresor

• is exhausted

• worries that someone will hear

• feels remorse

• wants to save Fortunato

Most of the setting of the story takes place

• at the carnival
• in Fortunato's palazzo
• in the catacombs
• next to Luchesi's home

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Montresor tells Fortunato that he is a "man to be missed".  This is an example of  

• mood
• theme
• irony
• protagonist

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Which line below hints that maybe Montresor had second thoughts about what he was doing to Fortunato?

• "I drink to the buried that repose around us"
• "Nemo me impune lacessit"
• "I grew impatient"
• "My heart grew sick- from the dampness of the catacombs"

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Paraphrase the following:

"A wrong is undressed when the retribution overtakes its redresser"

• No wrong can be avenged

• A person who avenges a wrong shouldn't be punished

• A person who avenges a wrong must be punished

• People need to be dressed up in order to get revenge

Select the best paraphrase for the following line from the story A Cask of Amontillado:

"A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back."

• Montresor heard a loud noise

• The carnival people were having too much fun and were being very loud and obnoxious

• The chained man screamed so loudly I almost fell over

• The animal was upset at being tied up and scared the people passing by on the street during carnival