Affiliate Marketing Secrets

1. Why did Montresor seek revenge on Fortunato?
2. How did Montresor know that the house would be empty?
3. Where had the stone and mortar, used by Montresor to wall up the entrance to the niche, been hidden?
4. Where and when is the story set? Give reasons for your answer.
5. Why does Montresor make sure Fortunato has drunk a lot of wine?
6. What is Luchresi’s role in the story?
7. What preparations had Montressor made for his revenge?
8. Why does Montresor appear concerned about Fortunato’s health?
9. How many injuries has the narrator ‘permitted’ from Fortunato?
10. Poe always liked to do things “at length”. The same is true with the narrator in this story. He knows of Fortunato’s weakness and uses it to his advantage. What is this weakness?
11. When the narrator first saw Fortunato at the carnival, what was his condition?
12. As soon as the narrator sees Fortunato, he tells him that he has received “a pipe for what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts”. Who does the narrator suggest that he is going to see to find out if the wine is genuine?
13. The narrator’s vaults were very damp due to the fact that they were encrusted with what?
14. What is the motto of the Montresor family? Translate it into English
15. As the two men were walking down into the vault, Montresor stated that the cask was in a cave at the end of the vault. Fortunato is still completely drunk. What does Montresor do to keep Fortunato in the cave of the vault?
16. How long has it been that no one has disturbed Fortunato’s bones?

I’m pretty sure it was elementary school, at least. The book took place in Romania, and I’m pretty sure it was the 80s. The book ends with the spurs of Revolution, I think. The narrator is a girl and she had gotten a red scarf as a present, I think. The scarf was very important in the book, and at the end she gives it away to a boy (or young man, whatever) who has a head injury, to help stop the bleeding. I think her family stood in bread lines, and at one point she is eating M & Ms that she had gotten from a friend, who was a boy, whose father worked for…secret police or something, which is why who could get that. Her mother was concerned when she saw her eating them because she said they could only get chocolate off the Black Market. I believe there was an epilogue talking about how, although improved, Romania was still facing some problems.
Also there’s another book, but I don’t think anyone can find it because I only remember the cover, some characteristics, but not the plot at all. The cover was a girl in a navy uniform sitting down at a chessboard on an island. You could only see her upper torso to her head, and her back was to the cover. The protagonist was a adventurous tomboy I think…? They went to an island…there were rocks…somebody might have gotten murdered…I think someone fell out of a window…I have no idea what happened, but I’m pretty sure it had a word along the lines of “game” or something similar in the title.
If anyone has happened to read these, I’d love to know the titles, thanks!

I get that this is probably not the best forum for this question, but nonetheless here it is…
Why are Jews so hated by both niche groups and by larger groups? I have a Master’s in Physics, and I am fairly versed in my history about Hitler jumping on the bandwagon and using popular hatred of the Jews to commit atrocities against them in the 40’s, but I don’t remember the reasons, only the fact that the hate was there. Today, while my 8 year old son and I were watching the History channel in the background and building Legos, he heard the narrator talking about how Hitler leveraged the “general census of poplar opinion of the Jews to launch a political offensive against them” and he asked me why do people hate the Jews. I thought about why people hate them, and I couldn’t think of the foundation that drives the hatred. I am not a religious person, and don’t raise my kids in that fashion, so his question didn’t come from a place of difference of religion, and I respectfully ask that anyone who answers doesn’t cite only religious differences for hating them.