The Cask of Amontillado Reading Assessment

What was Fortunato dressed as for Carnival?

• Jester
• Knight
• King
• None of the above

What was Fortunato's weak point according to Montresor?

• His Pride
• His sick wife
• His broken heart
• drinking

What is the name of the other person who Montresor tells Fortunato that he was going to ask about the Amontillado?

• Lucius 
• Lucresio
• Luchesi
• Luciano

How did Montresor know the house would be empty?

• Because he set it on fire

• Because he fired his servants

• Because he could not afford servants

• He told the servants he wouldn't be back until the morning and they took the night off

What does Montresor give Fortunato to drink to defend them from the damps?

• Medoc
• Amontillado
• A flagon of De Grave
• Cough medicine

What is the motto of the Montresors?

• Je maintriendrai
• Wingardium Leviosa
• Stare  decisis et non quieta movere
• Nemo me impune lacessit

Where had the stone and mortar, used by Montresor to wall up the entrance to the niche, been hidden?

• Under a pile of bones
• Under the cask of Amontillado
• Under Montresor's cloak
• Under the pipe of sherry

When Fortunato asked Montressor to give him a sign to prove he was a Mason, what did the narrator do?

• Produced a trowel
• Gave the secret handshake of the Masons
• Shows him his coat of Arms
• Showed him a ring

The quote "Nobody attacks me without punishment" is

• the motto found on Montresor's coat of arms

• engraved in the walls of the catacombs

• a statement made by Fortunato to Montresor

• a common theme of Poe's stories

Which character is struggling with a cough that the catacombs will make worse?

• Luchesi

• Montresor

• Lady Fortunato

• Fortunato