Problem
A. Who is Montresor's intended audience for his tale? How do you know?
B. What has Fortunato done to Montresor, our narrator?
C. How does Montresor pray on Fortunato's ego?
D. How do we know that Montresor has planned this in advance? How does his knowledge of human behaviour play a role?
E. What are "the catacombs of the Montresors"?
F. Montresor gives his family motto as "Nemo me impune lacessit"which means "No one harms (wounds, hurts, provokes) me with impunity." Impunity means without being punished. He also describes the family coat of arms as a "huge human foot d'or, in a field azure ; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are embedded in the heel." Is any of this true? How do we know?
G. Give the specific line where Fortunato figures out what is about to happen.
H. There is one small example of Montresor's feeling of guilt at the end of the story. What is it?
I. What does the last line of the story mean?