Poe and "The Cask" Intro Review

What is the title of the short story we are going to read by Edgar Allan Poe?

• A Cask of Sherry

• The Cask of Amontillado

• Safe and Sober Revenge

• Aquafina

Traditionally, the fasting during Lent involves abstaining from eating meat. What is this holiday called?

• Fast Day

• Carnivorous Delicatus

• No meat cheat day

• Carnival

CHECK ALL THAT APPLY: Which of the following were an occurrence during Carnival?

• Excess and binging on food and alcohol

• Partying in the streets

• Masquerades

• Sleeping for days to prepare

Carnival : Europe :: ______ : the U.S.

(this is an analogy)

• Mardi Gras

• Easter

• Daylight Savings Time

• The Blue Moon

A palazzo is another word for:

• Pants

• Mansion

• European pizza

The cities of the dead that were often underneath mansions were called:

• Catacombs

• Honeycombs

• Bone Cities

• Dens

What does the narrator promise his victim for following him?

• good fortune

• amontillado

• death

True or False:

Edgar Allan Poe is both the author and narrator of "The Cask of Amontillado:

• True

• False

How did Poe die?

• Turberculosis

• Typhoid Fever

• Unknown cause of death

• Covid

Vocabulary:

Definition is: prevented

• impunity

• retribution

• precluded

• immolation