B. Fortunato hopes Montresor is playing a joke on him.
Answer:
For Dickens, a good education could be the bulwark against ignorance, cyclical poverty and crime. Conversely, a badly run school could be the breeding ground for young, cunning criminals or, on the other hand, produce unimaginative, machine-like pupils ready for the industrial factory.
C. to gain understanding D. slowly to look for clues to the message.
If you put each of the possible answers in the blank and read the sentence the right answer would be C.
