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Question 4(Multiple Choice Worth 4 points)

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
iS too late. Your cough--*
It nothing," he said; Tet us go on.
O The narrator
worried about the nitre on the walls of the vault.
O The narrator knows it is already too late for Fortunato to escape.
O Fortunato is worried about the
moisture and bones in the vaults.
O Fortunato wants to continue their descent into the vaults for the Amontillado.

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Answer:

b) The narrator knows it is already too late for Fortunato to escape.

Step-by-step explanation:

Montresor, the narrator, seems to care about Fortunato's well-being, but in reality, he plans to terminate his long-suffering friendship with Fortunato by any means necessary, even murder. But now he thinks it could be too late and wants to set him free after he has a change of heart.

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