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#1. Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado." "The nitre!" I said; "see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones. Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough--" "It is nothing," he said; "let us go on. The narrator is worried about the nitre on the walls of the vault. The narrator knows it is already too late for Fortunato to escape. [x]Fortunato is worried about the moisture and bones in the vaults. Fortunato wants to continue their descent into the vaults for the Amontillado.#2. Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado." "Let us go, nevertheless. The cold is merely nothing. Amontillado! You have been imposed upon. And as for Luchesi, he cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado." [x]Luchesi does not know wines as well as Fortunato. Montresor does not want to bother Fortunato. Fortunato thinks himself to be a better connoisseur of wines than Luchesi. It is too cold to go anywhere.#3. Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado." "Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!" Montresor spent fifty years building the wall. Fortunato has never been found. Montresor buried all of the old bones. [x]Fortunato has been sleeping for fifty years.#4. Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado." "You are not of the masons." "Yes, yes," I said; "yes, yes." "You? Impossible! A mason?" "A mason," I replied. "A sign," he said, "a sign." "It is this," I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaire a trowel. "You jest," he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces. "But let us proceed to the Amontillado." "Be it so," I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak and again offering him my arm. Montresor is not a mason. [x]Fortunato is not a mason. Fortunato does not believe that Montresor is a mason. Montresor does not believe that Fortunato is a mason. Have no idea for this one..

Answer 1

There are the answers on your questions, even though our answers are completely different, I bet those I have wrote are correct. Check it, do hope it will help you somehow.

1. The narrator knows it is already too late for Fortunato to escape.
2.  Fortunato thinks himself to be a better connoisseur of wines than Luchesi.
3. Fortunato has never been found.
4.  Montresor does not believe that Fortunato is a mason.