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Unit 2

1) To Montresor, the fatal weakness of Fortunato is his _______ for his connoisseurship in wine.

A) knowledge

B) arrogance

C) faith

D) seeming ignorance

2) Montresor wants to take revenge on Fortunato during the carnival because _______ .

A) almost all the people would habitually celebrate the festival, excessively drinking and dancing in delight and giving less attention to other activities beyond celebration.

B) Fortunato would be too busy as a wine connoisseur during the festival so that he might not see through the tricky plan of Montresor to put an end to his life.

C) he would work together with Fortunato during the festival so as to have chance to kill him.

D) he chooses the time at random instead of a deliberate scheme.

3) In the story Amontillado is known as the good wine whose _______ , as Montresor deceptively claims, has strong appeal to Fortunato.

A) taste and smell

B) reputation and taste

C) reputation and quantity

D) recommendations by Italian virtuosos

4) Who is Luchresi ?

A) a boy in the bar

B) a arrogant neighbor

C) a wine connoisseur

D) a Sherry producer

5) As Montresor and Fortunato walk further into the catacomb, the latter keeps coughing because

A) the nitre hanging like moss upon the vaults increases to strongly provoke him.

B) he pretends so in order to encourage himself.

C) he takes Nemo me impune lacessit.

D) the nitre distills the rheum of intoxication.

6) Before taking his last breath, Fortunato still seems unable to perceive the intention of Montresor, mistaking what Montresor does to him as a very good joke, indeed —an excellent jest. Why does he react so slowly?

A) Fortunato has drunk too much to see his coming death.

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B) Poe intends to use Fortunato's slow comprehension as a foil to the blackness of Montresor 's well-planned revenge.

C) Fortunato wants to get Montresor's mercy by fooling him this way so that he may free himself from the threshold of death.

D) It is only Montresor's illusion because Fortunato has been dead when the former builds up the eleven tiers of the stone wall.

7) Where does the story take place?

A) It is only a psychological experience without the setting in reality.

B) Poe never intends to give any information about the setting.

C) It couldn't be identified.

D) Italy as the setting of the story is only hinted in such as the names of characters and those of wines.

8) Montresor and Fortunato mean wealth and reasure in the Italian language, symbolically mirroring _______ .

A) their identical parentage

B) something hidden as their mutual weakness

C) their mutual love of gold

D) their mutual mania for material possession

9) As it is suggestive of the Italian culture where the story is set, the word Palazzo means

_______ .

A) a fancy restaurant serving good wines

B) a large, splendid residence or building such as a palace or museum for public activities

C) a dreamy place as paradise

D) a place as storage of wine

10) The story end with a Latin quotation In pace requiescat, by which Poe hints that

_______ .

A) Montresor thinks he will die soon

B) Montresor seems to be sorry for the death of Fortunato

C) Montresor's hatred for Fortunato is still so strong that he couldn't get it over even when he murdered the latter half a century ago

D) Montresor eventually regrets for what has done to Fortunato and implores God to give peace to the latter

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Unit 4

The Scarlet Letter is set in Boston because this town as one of the largest 1) The story of communities of European immigrants of the time could stand in many ways for ________.

A) the Puritan culture;

B) the Continental culture;

C) the typical culture of the native Indians;

D) the trend of immigration.

2) Generally speaking, the Puritan culture is characterized by ________.

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